Money for old rope is the expression that springs to mind. Rod Campbell has a real niche in the lift-the-flap book market. His books have generally been very popular in our house so I ordered this to add to the collection.
Each page has a gift-wrapped flap with a picture of a present underneath. There is a small amount of text describing the present. If it wasn't for the illustrations of Christmas wrapping paper I would have thought I was re-reading "My Presents" which is fairly tedious to begin with.
Still, the children like it. It adds a small amount of variety when it's brought out in December with the other Christmas stories.
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This book has beautiful pictures and it's very colourful. The book is nice and glossy, so it's easy to clean if it gets a bit dirty. The board is quite robust but not too thick, so it's easy for the baby to turn the pages themselves, as long as you raise it a bit so they can grip it. My 11 month old son loves this book. The only downside of it is that the text reads quite oddly, e.g. 'Yellow is a lemon', rather than 'A lemon is yellow'. It's like Yoda-speak, all backwards!
If you make up your own words it's 5 out of 5 and even though the text doesn't make sense the pictures alone are so attractive that it's worth 4 stars.
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I thought this would be a "baby" book as it was in board format in our library: but it isn't! Really fun rhymes "Timothy Pope, Timothy Pope, Is looking through his telescope" And very witty illustations. Good for directions too (left, right, up and down) which are repeated often.
It's good for predication too - getting my 3 yr old to think what the shape could be if it wasn't a shark's fin...
I'd say it was a good toddler read 2 1/2 to about 4 possibly. After that it may have a short shelf life apart from early readers.
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My three year old absolutely loves this book - she spends hours playing with it. It is a book that actually turns into a beautiful playset with paper dolls included and many doors and to open and explore. I have given it as a gift several times to many compliments - very unique! A great book for the 2 year old and up set. Also great for interactive parent and child play.
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I have two pre-schoolers and they love this book. The flaps are sometimes tricky for them to open but they love seeing what is behind each one. Its a great prompt for discussion and learning. Not just for youngsters, it provides a fantastic wealth of information and I'm sure it will be a book that will last well through childhood. Multiple reading is not so bad for the adult either as the children open the flaps in any order. I agree that some care needs to be taken with the flaps but this is easily taught. I couldn't recommend it more.
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I have two pre-schoolers and they love this book. The flaps are sometimes tricky for them to open but they love seeing what is behind each one. Its a great prompt for discussion and learning. Not just for youngsters, it provides a fantastic wealth of information and I'm sure it will be a book that will last well through childhood. Multiple reading is not so bad for the adult either as the children open the flaps in any order. I agree that some care needs to be taken with the flaps but this is easily taught. I couldn't recommend it more.
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I think we have them all she loves the sign and sing book,even does the signing to the songs realy good books would recomend these to anyone,educational for adult as well as children and fun
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It's not bad but I think first word books work better with photographs rather than these cartoon pics. The body parts are just not very distinguishable.The nose, for example, is barely there.
Also given it's American, there's a very yellow taxi which is irrelevant to us Brits and I'm not keen on the page of junk food - burger, pizza, chocolate.
My 16 month old son seems to like it but there's much better books out there for first word association.
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It's not bad but I think first word books work better with photographs rather than these cartoon pics. The body parts are just not very distinguishable.The nose, for example, is barely there.
Also given it's American, there's a very yellow taxi which is irrelevant to us Brits and I'm not keen on the page of junk food - burger, pizza, chocolate.
My 16 month old son seems to like it but there's much better books out there for first word association.
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