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Books in Order: 26 titles

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  • From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matthew Van Fleet comes a funny and interactive rhyming book that introduces numbers and counting with pull tabs, touch—and—feel textures, and many photographs of adorable animals!Photographs captu...



  • “A visually dynamic choice for toddlers who enjoy hands-on, sensory-driven experiences.” —School Library Journal From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matthew Van Fleet comes a funny and interactive rhyming book that uses pull ...



  • A Publishers Weekly Fall Gift Guide Selection! From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matt Van Fleet comes a “delightful romp” (School Library Journal) of a novelty book with interactive tabs starring a humorous cast of animals gettin...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matt Van Fleet comes a charming novelty book filled with underwater animals of all sizes and shapes and every letter of the alphabet!Once there was a little whale swimming in the sea who said he was so hungr...



  • From #1 New York Times bestsellers Matthew and Mara Van Fleet comes a charming novelty book filled with mermaids, mermen, and charming underwater animals young readers can dance along with!Follow along with the merkids as their sea creature friends f...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Heads and Dog comes a funny and interactive book featuring everyone’s favorite pets!Children will delight in this interactive introduction to an incredible assortment of pets, from guinea pigs a...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling novelty creator Matthew Van Fleet comes an exciting book that teaches little ones the months of the year! Join Oscar as he introduces preschoolers to the months of the year, texture, colors, and fascinating sea c...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling novelty book creator Matt Van Fleet comes an irresistible picture book about a very hungry alligator who likes to chomp, chomp, chomp, which will delight readers as they learn animal names, colors, and counting. ...






  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling children's book creator Matthew Van Fleet comes a laugh-out-loud, jazzy story of a little baby chick who learns how to dance from a friendly band of animals who know all the right moves! Shake, shake, shake, ...



  • A colorful canine romp for toddlers! Look for plenty of wagging and woofing as a parade of adorable pooches employ cleverly designed mechanics, pettable textures and even scratch-and-sniff patches to introduce toddlers to colors, textures, and mor...



  • A Huggable Concept Book About the Months of the Year Matthew Van Fleet's huggable multiconcept book introduces preschoolers to the months of the year, textures, colors, and fascinating sea creatures. The cleverly textured pages will tickle fingert...



  • Chew on this: an interactive novelty book all about eating, from #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matthew Van Fleet! From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Heads and Tails, a humorous look at how animals munch, crunch, and eat! In...



  • Give toddlers a taste of this deliciously adorable, interactive novelty book that's the perfect size for little hands, from #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matthew Van Fleet. From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Heads and Tails...



  • "Short nose, Sneeze nose, Noses smelling -- sniff, sniff, sniff." From the creator of The New York Times bestselling Heads and Tails, four pull-tabs and seven ticklable texture put toddlers nose-to-nose with captivating critters in this novelty book ...



  • Oink, cluck, squeak, moo . . . cock-a-doodle-doo! Ingeniously designed flaps and pull tabs, accompanied by pettable textures, offer a flock of interactive fun in this innovative introduction to the habits and distinctive voices of seven species of ba...



  • Discover all the fun of the farm with this novelty book from Matthew Van Fleet. Following in the same photographic style as 'Cat' and 'Dog', this title includes pull-tabs, gatefolds and touch-and-feel elements....



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matt Van Fleet comes a companion to the million plus copy bestseller, Tails that will dazzle and delight! Heads--wooly, bump and hairy--never has such a collection of animal heads been so much fun! ...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling children's book creator Matthew Van Fleet.A huggable concept book about the days of the week that doubles as a puppet! Matthew Van Fleet's huggable multiconcept book introduces preschoolers to textures, colors, ...






  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling children's book creator Matthew Van Fleet.Purrrrrfect fun for toddlers! In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating multiconcept book, watch twenty-two breeds of frolicking felines demonstrate synonyms, action words, opp...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling children's book creator Matthew Van Fleet.An Amazing ABC Safari for Preschoolers! In Matthew Van Fleet's incredible multiconcept book, over 100 creatures and plants from A to Z hilariously demonstrate action wor...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling children's book creator Matthew Van Fleet.Doggone fun for little ones! In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating multiconcept book, twenty breeds of capering canines demonstrate action words, opposites, synonyms, and m...



  • Tails are irresistible to toddlers--though most are beyond the reach of small hands. But now there's reason for tail fans everywhere to rejoice: a colorful collection of tails created just for those eager toddlers to tug, pat, and even scratch and sn...



  • Once again this best-selling author-illustrator delights toddlers with an irresistible lift-and-peek format that turns learning into pure fun. Each spread features a colorful geometric shape sporting a distinctive pattern. With the flip of a gatefold...



  • This charming introduction to colors, shapes, and animals has been delighting children all over the world for ten years! There is a surprise on every peek-a-boo page, where textured shapes magically turn into colorful creatures perfect for toddler's ...



  • Every page contains a surprise in this active picture book, filled with countable, colorful critters to engage the very young. Each spread features a number word from one to ten, a color word, and an Arabic numeral, folding out to reveal one or more ...


Award-Winning Books by Matthew Van Fleet

Alphabet
2008 NAPPA Gold Award -- Pop-Up Books/Kits
Heads
2010 NAPPA Gold Award -- Preschoolers & Up


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matthew Van Fleet has published 26 books.

The next book by Matthew Van Fleet, Color Pet, will be published in August 2026.

The first book by Matthew Van Fleet, One Yellow Lion, was published in May 1992.

No. Matthew Van Fleet does not write books in series.