Delicious, nutritious fruits in a rainbow of hues help toddlers learn about colors-and healthy eating. Rookie Toddler books offer fun ways to engage with little ones during story time and play time. Each book includes story-related tips that help extend the reading experience and emphasize key learnings. Engaging photographs and illustrations will delight your toddler while encouraging a love of reading. The Rookie Toddler series of board books continues to offer a useful array of titles spanning a broad series of general-interest topics. Clarity is the name of the game: The photos are precise, the text is large, the captions oversize, and the patterns repetitious. Red Apple Green Pair: A Book of Colors replaces the series’ usual white backgrounds with bright colors, allowing readers to see how a banana is yellow, though a different yellow from a lemon—and slightly different from the background yellow, too. Each book ends with an exercise and pointers for how parents and educators can extend the lessons. Nothing surprising here, but it’s flawlessly executed. Preschool. --Daniel Kraus