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At Glydevia, we make one kind of product: printable educational books for children ages 2–8 that parents can download instantly, print at home, and use forever.
That's it. No subscriptions. No apps. No shipping. No running out. One purchase per book, unlimited prints, for as long as you have a printer.
This guide covers every book in the Glydevia catalog — what it is, who it's for, how it's used, and how it fits alongside the others. If you're trying to decide which book to start with, or whether the complete bundle makes sense for your family, this is the place to start.
The Glydevia Early Learning Series
These three books form the foundation of early academic skills: letters, shapes, and numbers. They're designed to work together as a complete pre-K and kindergarten readiness curriculum — but each one stands alone.
📕 Glydevia Forest ABC
150 pages · Ages 4–7 · $7.99
The flagship product. A complete A–Z literacy workbook built around Fox — a scholarly forest fox who guides children through every letter of the alphabet with 4–5 different activity types per letter.
What's inside: Letter discovery scenes · Stroke-guided tracing (capital + lowercase) · 8 vocabulary words per letter · Sound hunt phonics activities · Surprise activities that change every letter (mazes, hidden letters, connect-the-dots, build-the-word...) · Forest Journey progress map · Review checkpoints every 5 letters · Parent & Teacher Guide · Certificate of Achievement
Best for: Homeschool families running a letter-of-the-week program, pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, parents of children ages 4–7 who want a structured but engaging literacy resource.
The difference from other ABC books: Most alphabet workbooks do one thing per letter — tracing or flashcards or coloring. Forest ABC does five things per letter, ensuring that every skill (phonemic awareness, handwriting, vocabulary, phonics, fine motor, reading, writing) gets practiced and every type of learner gets engaged.
🌿 Glydevia Forest Shapes
39 pages · Ages 2–5 · $6.99
A shape activity workbook that teaches children to see shapes in the natural world, not just recognize them on flashcards. Fox guides children through 8 essential shapes with 3 activity pages each.
What's inside: Discover pages (full-color forest scenes where Fox finds each shape in nature) · Trace & Draw pages (stroke-guided shape drawing + nature connection boxes) · Find & Color pages (hidden shape scenes to search and color) · Shape matching activity · Shape parade review · Certificate of Discovery
Best for: Children ages 2–5 beginning to learn shapes, particularly those who can name shapes on cards but haven't connected them to the real world.
The difference from other shape books: Most shape books show a triangle on a card. Forest Shapes shows a pine tree inside a glowing triangle — and then shows a mountain peak, a tent, and a bird's beak, all inside triangles — so the shape becomes a property of the real world rather than an abstract symbol.
🍓 Glydevia Fruit Stand
23 pages · Ages 3–6 · $3.99
A counting and number tracing book that teaches three layers of number knowledge simultaneously: quantity (counting fruit), numeral (writing the number), and number word (tracing ONE, TWO, THREE...).
What's inside: 10 counting and coloring pages (one fruit per number, 1–10) · 10 tracing and writing pages (stroke guides + word tracing + independent practice) · 3 bonus "How Many?" challenge pages
Best for: Children ages 3–6 learning numbers 1–10, particularly those who can count verbally but need support connecting quantities to written numerals.
The difference from other counting books: Most counting books do either counting or writing — not both. Fruit Stand does both, for every number, with the same consistent fruit theme that makes each number visually memorable and genuinely fun to color.
The Glydevia Animal Kingdom Series
Seven themed maze activity books, each covering a different animal kingdom. Every book follows the same format: one animal per page, one maze per page, one real wildlife fun fact per page. The format is simple. The content is genuinely extraordinary.
🌊 Glydevia Ocean Explorer
50 pages · Ages 4–8 · $6.99
The largest book in the Animal Kingdom series and consistently the most popular. 50 ocean creatures from the coral reef to the deep sea trench — covering surface, mid-water, and midnight zone creatures in equal measure.
Highlight creatures: Blue Whale · Anglerfish · Giant Squid · Mantis Shrimp · Sea Otter · Dumbo Octopus · Narwhal · Mimic Octopus · Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm
Best for: Any child with an interest in ocean life, homeschool ocean science units, classroom marine biology stations.
Why it surprises people: The deep sea creatures — anglerfish, dragonfish, goblin shark, barreleye fish — are genuinely unlike anything most children have seen. The facts are correspondingly astonishing (the anglerfish's lure is bioluminescent bacteria; the mantis shrimp's punch creates a flash of light; the pistol shrimp's snap is hotter than the surface of the sun).
🐄 Glydevia Farm Friends
44 pages · Ages 4–8 · $6.99
The most accessible book in the series and the best starting point for very young children (ages 4–5). 44 farm animals, from classic barnyard staples to heritage breeds most families have never encountered.
Highlight creatures: Highland Cow · Fainting Goat · Appaloosa Horse · Silkie Chicken · Llama · Alpaca · Muscovy Duck
Best for: Preschool and kindergarten-age children, farm-themed homeschool units, families with agricultural connections.
Why it surprises people: Farm animals are assumed to be boring — already known, already familiar. Farm Friends demonstrates that hens talk to their unhatched eggs, and donkeys remember specific locations for 25 years. The most familiar animals turn out to be the most surprising.
🌴 Glydevia Jungle Quest
48 pages · Ages 4–8 · $6.99
A full tour of the world's jungle and wild animal ecosystems — from the African savanna to the South American cloud forest to the Asian rainforest canopy. 48 animals across every layer of the jungle environment.
Highlight creatures: Sloth · Tarsier · Mandrill · Pangolin · Binturong · Fossa · Red Panda · Electric Eel · Capybara
Best for: Children ages 5–8 with interests in wild animals, geographic diversity, or wildlife documentaries.
Why it surprises people: The lesser-known animals — Binturong (smells like buttered popcorn), Fossa (Madagascar's apex predator, not quite cat and not quite mongoose), Pangolin (only mammal with scales, most trafficked animal on earth) — are consistently the most memorable pages.
🐦 Glydevia Sky High
48 pages · Ages 4–8 · $6.99
A world tour of birds — from every continent, every climate, every niche. The book that makes children look up.
Highlight creatures: Peregrine Falcon · Arctic Tern · Kakapo · Superb Lyrebird · Shoebill · Hoatzin · Red-Capped Manakin · Bird of Paradise · Wandering Albatross
Best for: Budding birdwatchers, nature study homeschool units, children who watch wildlife documentaries.
Why it surprises people: Birds are everywhere and therefore taken for granted. Sky High reveals what birds are actually doing: the Arctic Tern travels 44,000 miles a year; the Lyrebird mimics chainsaws and camera shutters; the Kakapo is possibly 90 years old and is the only flightless parrot on earth; the Peregrine Falcon dives at 240 miles per hour.
🐝 Glydevia Bug World
50 pages · Ages 4–8 · $6.99
Fifty insects and arthropods — from the honeybee to the Atlas Moth, from the Bombardier Beetle to the Dung Beetle that navigates by the Milky Way. The book that changes how children walk through a garden.
Highlight creatures: Atlas Moth · Bombardier Beetle · Leafcutter Ant · Velvet Ant · Walking Leaf · Fairyfly · Dung Beetle · Giant Water Bug
Best for: Children interested in science, nature, or creepy-crawlies; homeschool ecology and entomology units; children who pick up bugs on sidewalks.
Why it surprises people: Most adults don't know that pill bugs are crustaceans, that the Atlas Moth never eats, that leafcutter ants farm mushrooms, or that dung beetles use the stars to navigate. Bug World introduces these realities to children before the assumptions of adulthood set in.
🦎 Glydevia Reptile Run
38 pages · Ages 4–8 · $5.99
Thirty-eight reptiles — covering every major group from the most familiar to the most extraordinary. The book that replaces fear with fascination.
Highlight creatures: Basilisk Lizard · Tuatara · Flying Snake · Horned Lizard · Leatherback Sea Turtle · Galápagos Giant Tortoise · Gharial · Gila Monster
Best for: Children interested in reptiles, families with reptile pets, science units on vertebrate diversity.
Why it surprises people: The Tuatara's lineage predates the dinosaurs. The Basil Lizard runs on water. The Horned Lizard shoots blood from its eyes. The Galápagos Giant Tortoise alive today was born before the Civil War. Reptiles — presented honestly — are among the most astonishing animals on earth.
🐸 Glydevia Pond Pals
15 pages · Ages 4–8 · $3.99
Fifteen amphibians — the most overlooked vertebrate group in children's education. The shortest book in the series and among the most memorable.
Highlight creatures: Axolotl · Wood Frog · Desert Rain Frog · Caecilian · Hellbender · Marsupial Frog · Glass Frog
Best for: Introduction to amphibians, homeschool ecology units, children who love unusual animals.
Why it surprises people: Everything. Wood frogs freeze solid. Axolotls regrow hearts. The Desert Rain Frog sounds like a squeaky toy. Caecilians are legless, nearly blind, soil-dwelling amphibians that most people have never heard of. Pond Pals is the book that most consistently produces the response "I had no idea."
Which Book Should You Start With?
If your child is 2–4: Start with Forest Shapes ($6.99) or Safari ABC ($4.99). Both are accessible for very young children and focus on foundational pre-literacy and early concept development.
If your child is 3–5 and learning numbers: Start with Fruit Stand ($3.99). It's the lowest price point in the catalog and one of the most immediately useful.
If your child is 4–7 and learning the alphabet: Start with Forest ABC ($9.99). It's the most comprehensive resource in the catalog and the one that most directly builds the skills assessed at kindergarten entry.
If your child loves animals: Any book in the Animal Kingdom series works as a starting point. Ocean Explorer and Farm Friends are the most popular first choices. Pond Pals is the best value-per-surprise ratio in the catalog.
If you want everything: The Complete Glydevia Bundle includes all books at a bundled price. See glydevia.store for current bundle pricing.
The Glydevia Difference
Every book in the Glydevia catalog was built around the same core belief: children are not bored by complexity. They are bored by oversimplification.
A child who is told "frogs live in ponds" will forget that within a week. A child who learns that the Wood Frog freezes solid every winter and thaws out alive in spring will remember it forever — because it's genuinely extraordinary, and genuine extraordinariness is inherently memorable.
This belief shapes every page of every book: the facts are real and surprising, the illustrations are detailed and expressive, the activities build skills that transfer to formal learning, and the overall experience communicates to children that the natural world is worth paying attention to.
That communication — the message that paying attention to the world around you is rewarded, over and over, with astonishment — is the most valuable thing any educational resource can offer.
Browse the complete Glydevia catalog at glydevia.store
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Quick Reference: Complete Catalog
| Book | Pages | Ages | Price | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest ABC | 150 | 4–7 | $7.99 | Complete A–Z literacy workbook |
| Forest Shapes | 39 | 2–5 | $6.99 | 8 shapes with 3 activities each |
| Fruit Stand | 23 | 3–6 | $3.99 | Numbers 1–10: count, trace, write |
| Safari ABC | 26 | 2–6 | $4.99 | Animal alphabet coloring book |
| Ocean Explorer | 50 | 4–8 | $6.99 | 50 sea creatures: maze + fact |
| Farm Friends | 44 | 4–8 | $6.99 | 44 farm animals: maze + fact |
| Jungle Quest | 48 | 4–8 | $6.99 | 48 jungle animals: maze + fact |
| Sky High | 48 | 4–8 | $6.99 | 48 birds: maze + fact |
| Bug World | 50 | 4–8 | $6.99 | 50 insects: maze + fact |
| Reptile Run | 38 | 4–8 | $5.99 | 38 reptiles: maze + fact |
| Pond Pals | 15 | 4–8 | $3.99 | 15 amphibians: maze + fact |
Have a question about which book is right for your child? Contact us at glydevia.store — we're happy to help.
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