Five lavishly illustrated spreads meet big, recessed flaps, and a host of animals to spot, name, and mimic in these delightful little board books for the very young.
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Lots of fun saying the animal words, even more fun in lifting the flaps to discover what's hiding behind. Overall this is a win win with the only drawback being that this book isn't the sturdiest thing in the world in regard to the flaps. You're going to want to be a little careful your toddler doesn't devour this book. Literally.
If a person is going to write a book for children to learn prepositions, the author of the book should be correct when writing the book. There is a page in the book that asks, "Who's that beside the rock?" When the reader lifts the flap on the rock, there's a frog BEHIND it, with the words, "It's a croaky frog! Ribbit! Ribbit!" What is actually BESIDE the rock is a bird.
Copyright-2015 Number of pages-10 pages Book format- Hardcover Reading level- Preschool-Kindergarten Genre- fiction, children's literature Lit requirement- Engineered Summary- Using mystery this book goes through several different animals using the type of place they would live in to allow for the reader to guess what animal it might be. Response- This book uses sort of a mystery feel because it requires the readers to use the pictures and details to guess what is going to happen. They use flaps to help hide the animals which is fun for children to pull back and discover. This book is a 3 out of 5 because it is appropriate for the age and is a fun, mystery read. It is a good way for student to discover the habitat that an animal lives in in a fun and exciting way.
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My little one is 18 months and she loves lifting the flaps. She picks this book off the shelf every day and looks at it multiple times. The flaps were a bit tricky for her when I first got it (at about 10 months) but now they are a breeze. The animals all have very friendly faces, and you can practice making their designated noises. Otherwise there is not much to this book, though. I wonder if she will still read through them by the time she is 3.
My 18-month-old daughter loves the Can You Say It Too? lift-the-flap books by Sebastien Braun. She loves making the animal sounds. These are books she can "read" to herself over and over. She loves lifting the flaps and has since we got the first one more than nine months ago. We were so glad when two new Can You Say It Too? books came out. This one and "Arf Arf."
A way lot quicker than I expected but a fun little flap book. The flaps were really stiff which will probably bode well for durability but I'd recommend pre-bending them before handing off to a little one.