Wildroot Adventures · Safari
Twenty-six animals.
One alphabet safari.
An 80-page ABC and coloring activity book for children ages 3–5, built to share with the grown-up beside them: read a little, draw a little, remember a lot.
Ages 3–5The collection
Meet Wildroot Adventures
Explore our current Safari, Ocean, and Space series, with Sports and Dinosaur coming soon. Different worlds to discover, with a shared approach to learning together.
Current seriesSafari
Explore safari animals through letters, counting, and shapes.
Explore Safari books
Current seriesOcean
Explore the ocean through letters, counting, shapes, and coloring.
Explore Ocean books
Coming soonSports
Animal friends, games, and movement. A new learning adventure is on its way.
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Current seriesSpace
Explore the alphabet with Cosmo Fox through coloring and space adventures.
Explore Space books
Coming soonDinosaur
Meet friendly dinosaurs in a prehistoric learning adventure, coming soon.
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The Wildroot learning system
A simple rhythm to share through each adventure: read together, color, draw, then remember with playful questions and games. Follow your child's curiosity and enjoy learning side by side.
- 01
Read
Share a short story moment with a grown-up.
- 02
Color
Add color to the page together.
- 03
Draw
Try drawing what you just met.
- 04
Remember
Explore Memory Stops through playful questions and games, guided by Bloom’s Taxonomy.
The thinking behind the activities
Memory Stops, guided by Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy is the main educational framework behind our Memory Stops. We use its revised six levels of thinking to guide playful questions and activities that invite children to do more than recall facts: explain, try, compare, make choices, and create.
With a parent or teacher alongside them, children explore these different ways of thinking through age-appropriate activities. Here are examples of the kinds of thinking Memory Stops encourage:
- Remember
- Recall a letter, animal, or detail from the story.
- Understand
- Explain an idea in your own words.
- Apply
- Use what you learned in a new activity.
- Analyze
- Compare, sort, and notice similarities or differences.
- Evaluate
- Make a choice and explain your reasons.
- Create
- Imagine, draw, or make something new.
The books
Each book on its own, so you can pick the right one for your child.
Safari · Available now · Paperback
Wildroot Adventures: Safari
Learning the ABC and Coloring Activity Book
By Ari Safari · Paperback
- Ages
- 3–5
- Pages
- 80
Join Milo the monkey for a playful alphabet adventure. Meet an animal for every letter, hear a short story, then draw, color, and remember together with a grown-up.
- Twenty-six animal-and-letter lessons, A to Z, with uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Short read-aloud stories with matching drawing and coloring activities.
- Five Safari Memory Stops to remember, explain, try, compare, decide, and create, plus a final memory game and an explorer certificate.
Explore the activities and book details
From A to Z, young explorers meet fascinating animals, discover fun facts, and bring their own ideas to life. Each animal-and-letter page faces a matching drawing activity, giving children space to look, learn, color, and create.
Helpful grown-up guidance and answers make it easy to share the activities with confidence. Each Memory Stop can be explored a little at a time. Children can answer with words, gestures, or pictures—with encouragement and room to try again.
Inspired by Bloom’s Taxonomy, each Memory Stop invites children to remember, show, try, look closer, help Milo decide, and create something of their own.
Book details: 80 pages. For ages 3–5, at home or during preschool learning. Color. Draw. Remember.
Safari · Available now
Safari: Numbers and Shapes
Counting and shapes activity book
By Ari Safari · Paperback
- Ages
- 3–5
- Pages
- 72
Count, discover shapes, and create your own safari adventure with Milo the monkey! Explore numbers 0–10, circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles through pictures, conversation, movement, and play.
Explore the activities and book details
Turn early math into shared moments of discovery. Inside this 72-page adventure, you’ll find:
- 21 illustrated lessons pairing safari coloring scenes with matching activities and generous space for original drawings.
- Counting and number activities that invite children to touch each object, count together, and discover how many there are altogether.
- Shape explorations that help young learners notice edges, sides, and corners.
- Playful thinking challenges exploring more and fewer, equal groups, sorting, repeating patterns, position, and combining shapes.
- Five Safari Memory Stops inviting children to remember, explain, try, compare, help Milo decide, and create something of their own.
- Grown-up guidance and answers, a dream safari camp to design, and an explorer celebration page.
Simple prompts help grown-ups demonstrate an activity, try it together, and give children room to lead. Young explorers can respond by pointing, talking, moving, drawing, or coloring—at their own pace.
The second book in the Wildroot Adventures Safari collection can also be enjoyed on its own, during preschool learning, homeschool activities, or a creative afternoon together.
Book details: 72 pages. For ages 3–5. Bring your crayons, your curiosity, and your imagination.
Ocean · Available now
Learning the ABC: Alphabet Learning & Activity Book (Wildroot Adventures: Ocean)
Explore the alphabet with Dash, a friendly sea otter
By Ari Safari · Paperback
- Ages
- 4–6
- Pages
- 80
Dive into the alphabet with Dash, a friendly sea otter explorer! Meet 26 ocean friends, A to Z, through coloring, letter tracing, drawing, and Memory Trail games.
Explore the activities and book details
Swim from sunny coral reefs to the icy north and meet a new ocean friend for every letter from A to Z: a blue whale, a playful dolphin, a narwhal with a tooth for a tusk, a seahorse dad who carries his babies, and many more.
Each letter has two pages that work together:
- Picture page: color a big, friendly ocean animal, trace the letter, and read a short, true ocean fact together.
- My Turn! page: draw something else that starts with the letter, then practice writing it.
Memory Trail games make learning stick. Every five letters, children “climb the Memory Tree,” starting with simple remembering and going all the way up to inventing their own creatures. The activities are based on how children learn best: try to remember first, then peek to check. A grown-up reads the questions aloud, and children answer by drawing, pointing, circling, coloring, and talking.
Inside you’ll find:
- 26 ocean animals to color, A to Z
- Uppercase and lowercase letter tracing and writing
- 26 “My Turn!” drawing pages
- 5 Memory Trail stops with 6 kinds of thinking activities
- A note for grown-ups with simple tips for 15 minutes a day
- A “Memory Tree Champion” certificate to celebrate
Book details: 80 pages, large 8.5 × 11 inch pages, single-sided coloring pictures. Best used with crayons or colored pencils.
Perfect for ages 4 to 6, preschool and kindergarten, at home, in the classroom, or for homeschool.
Ocean · Available now
Ocean: Learning Numbers and Shapes
Numbers and Shapes Learning & Activity Book
By Ari Safari · Paperback
- Ages
- 4–6
- Pages
- 90
Count, color and explore the ocean with Dash, a friendly sea otter explorer! Count from 1 to 20 with ocean animals, then hunt for six shapes in fun ocean scenes.
Explore the activities and book details
Count with a narwhal, crabs, manatees, sea turtles, an octopus with eight arms, dolphins, jellyfish and more. Discover circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals and stars.
Every number and shape has two pages that work together:
- Picture page: color a big, friendly ocean scene, count the animals or find the shape, trace it, and read a short, true ocean fact together.
- My Turn! page: draw your own set to count or your own shape, then practice tracing and writing.
Memory Trail games make learning stick. Every five pages, children “climb the Memory Tree,” starting with simple remembering and going all the way up to inventing their own ocean creatures. Try to remember first, then peek to check. A grown-up reads the questions aloud, and children answer by drawing, matching, circling, and talking.
Inside you’ll find:
- 20 ocean animals to color and count, from 1 to 20
- 6 shapes to find, color and trace
- Number tracing and writing practice
- 26 “My Turn!” drawing pages
- 5 Memory Trail stops with 6 kinds of thinking activities
- 5 extra full-page ocean scenes to color
- A note for grown-ups with simple tips for 15 minutes a day
- A “Memory Tree Champion” certificate to celebrate
Book details: 90 pages, large 8.5 × 11 inch pages, single-sided coloring pictures. Best used with crayons or colored pencils.
Perfect for ages 4 to 6, preschool and kindergarten, at home, in the classroom, or for homeschool.
Space · Available now
Space: Learning the ABC
Alphabet Learning & Coloring Activity Book
By Ari Safari · Paperback
- Ages
- 3–5
- Pages
- 100
Make the alphabet a space adventure with Cosmo Fox. Explore A–Z through coloring, drawing and shared discoveries, with uppercase and lowercase letters and pictured words from Astronaut to Zipper.
Explore the activities and book details
Meet a friendly fox astronaut in an activity book designed for children ages 3–5 to enjoy with a grown-up.
- 26 letter pairs and space-themed words to explore together.
- 39 coloring scenes: 26 alphabet pictures plus 13 extra space adventures.
- Facing activities and roomy drawing pages for original ideas.
- Five playful Memory Stops for remembering, noticing, choosing and imagining.
- A short grown-up introduction, an explorer celebration and optional learning resources.
Cosmo mixes real space ideas with pretend adventures, inviting children to color a rocket, imagine a new planet or make a discovery of their own. Follow your child’s pace and enjoy one picture or invitation at a time.
Book details: 100 pages. Large 8.5 × 11 inch format. Black-and-white interior. Start with crayons or colored pencils. Pages are printed on both sides, with drawing and activity pages sharing the backs of coloring scenes.
Color. Draw. Remember. Make the adventure your own.
About Us
Created by teachers.
Made for families.
At Virtual Tree Academy, we create books for parents and children to share—not simply for children to complete.
As teachers, we care deeply about what children learn. But behind every activity we design is a more important purpose: helping parents build a strong, lasting relationship with their children.
Reading a story together, talking about a picture, playing a memory game, or drawing side by side can become more than a learning activity. These are opportunities to listen, encourage, laugh, and understand one another. They show a child: Your ideas matter. I enjoy spending time with you.
Our books give families a simple place to begin. Parents do not need teaching experience or perfect answers. Being present, asking questions, and exploring together are what make these moments meaningful.
Created by educators working with children from Pre-K through fifth grade, our books also complement classroom learning. We use Bloom’s Taxonomy to guide activities that encourage children to remember, understand, explore, and create. But the educational framework serves the relationship—not the other way around.
We want children to grow as learners while knowing they have someone beside them who cares. That connection can help nurture the confidence and curiosity they carry into school and beyond.
You matter more to your child than you may realize. Your time, your attention, and the moments you share can make a lasting difference.
Read together. Play together. Learn together.
The learning matters. The relationship comes first.
Meet the Author
Ari Safari
33 years of teaching experience
Ari Safari is a veteran teacher with 33 years of experience in education. For the last 10 years, she has been teaching Kindergarten.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood and a master’s degree in Early Childhood from Nova Southeastern University. She is certified in Early Childhood and Elementary education, from Pre-K through 6th Grade.
Ari Safari’s books reflect a commitment to bringing parents and children together through learning. They offer families opportunities to share stories, explore ideas, and enjoy one another’s company—because supporting a child means more than helping them finish an activity. It means building a relationship in which they feel heard, encouraged, and loved.
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