Books like Little Blue Truck's Springtime

My 3 year old grandson loves these books, so of course I had to buy him this one for Easter. We've been reading it multiple times every day since then and he takes it to bed with him at night. I like that each book in the series is a little different - this one is an open-the-flap book. Each page has a different kind of animal, with their baby animals under the flap. The illustrations are beautiful, very colorful and full of little details like a mouse hiding in the barn. Also, alongside the main story there are frogs who make crowns of the different colored flowers on each page and hitch a ride on the truck. In addition, each baby animal is referred to by its correct name, so kids get used to hearing those terms.My grandsons live with my son, their father, and the book only once refers to the parent animal as mother. The rest of the time the story just says "horse" or "rabbit". So it works well for our family. On the page where it talks about "Mother pig", my grandson wanted to know where the Daddy pig was. This kind of thing matters to little kids, so I'm happy that they made the story work for any parent figure. (Lots of spring time books assume the babies are always with their mother.) In our case he decided the Daddy pig was inside the barn and then he was happy. :)(The flaps are large and pretty sturdy so I expect the book to hold up pretty well to all the attention he's giving it.)