When I was majoring in education, I bought a bunch of books for my classroom. I bought this book because I thought it would be a creative way to teach SHAPES.
Each page has a little 4 line rhyme that really got my attention. It was kind od sing-songy and describes the shape.
The pictures are very bright and colorful. The pictures are also of the shape the poem was about.
The best way to encourage a child to read is to have books in the home.
Julie Aigner-Clark is a genius! Her inventive products, exceptionally creative, are designed to entertain children while they learn. "See and Spy Shapes," is no exception. The cleverly written text is metrical in style, and teaches shapes and counting in an imaginative way through "seeing and spying", the object by means of example. For instance, the reader sees a rabbit sitting in a garden with various items scattered about, and the poem on the left side of the book reads, "A CIRCLE is a crazy thing it has no sides, just one round ring. You'll see a CIRCLE on my nose now find five more beneath my toes." The FIVE circles beneath the rabbit's toes are: a radish, a head of lettuce, an onion, a bug, and a watermelon.
Each page of this little board book features a different poem, animal, and shape. Additional shapes include: triangle, square, oval, rectangle, star, and diamond. The illustrations are brightly colored, and are highly contrasted to the background, creating emphasis to stimulate babies interest, while providing lessons on shapes, numbers and counting, colors, animals and other everyday objects for preschoolers. This is an outstanding book! Birth and up.
On April 28, 2002 amesiowa, reviewed the wrong book! She commented on "Puzzling Shapes: A Puzzle Book", by Baby Einstein, not "See and Spy Shapes."
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My daughter is in love with this book and she is only 8 months old! The poetry is wonderful and this book also incorporates counting and colors with the shapes ("find 5 more shapes like mine" etc). The illustrations are great and keep her attention. All of the Baby Einstein series are wonderful!
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Even when my baby was under one month old, he would stare at the colorful pictures on the pages-he would stare at the left page and then the right. I knew the book was stimulating his growing brain and I was giddy with excitement!! Now that my baby is 8 months old and he likes to hold the book himself, I appreciate the rounded corners and thick cardboard pages (so baby won't get paper cuts). My baby likes to gnaw on the book so I guess it's also a great teething toy!
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The colors, style, and theme of this book are excellent. It is one of the few I found that is simple enough for toddlers just beginning to identify shapes. However, I found it to have a huge flaw. The shapes inside the book are "puzzle pieces". For example, there is a picture of a baseball, and underneath the baseball is the word circle. Except instead of lifting a flap, each of the cardboard shapes actually comes out of the book. They don't reinsert easily. I can just imagine after one or two readings that the pieces would be everywhere but in the book.
My son is 1 YO and he has so much fun with this toy right now he watches them pop-up (with my help) and he tries to push them back down. The buttons are easy to manipulate I don't think it will be long before he is pushing or turning the knobs himself. And BEST of all Tolo products are all Bispenol-A and phthalate FREE, which are both proven hormone disrupters. This is an excellant company and a great toy I will definitely be purchasing from them again.
