Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love

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Fabulous book - every parent should have!

Focusing Mr. Live Wire

Great info on baby's brains!

Interesting but wordy

prefer Perlmutter's Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten

Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
Linda Phd Acredolo , and Susan Phd Goodwyn
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition

What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

Baby Play (Gymboree)

Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

How to Have a Smarter Baby: The Infant Stimulation Program For Enhancing Your Baby's Natural Development

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 0553380303
Release Date: 2000-07-05

Book Description

More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower

Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes!

Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants.
It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly
influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later
reading and math skills.

Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signs-have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to:

_ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems
_ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old
make logical connections
_ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history
_ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk
_ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games
_ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness
_ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play
_ And much more!

Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it
builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you.

Customer Reviews:

Fabulous book - every parent should have!.......2007-08-01

I read this book and then bought a copy so I could keep it as a reference. Full of fascinating information about baby development that every parent should know -- I was surprised to learn just how advanced babies' minds are as soon as they are born, how they are much more aware of the world around them than previously thought. This book has many ideas of how to capitalize on your baby's brain development as s/he grows. Simple and fun games to play and ways to interact with your child. I love this book and have used many of the ideas already with my 8-month-old daughter.

Focusing Mr. Live Wire.......2007-05-13

Our first and only grandchild has the typical inquisitive mind of a toddler. This book helps us to offer additional play that will encourage the mind. It is the small things that have influenced him the most.

Great info on baby's brains!.......2007-03-28

Sort of a review of "Early Childhood Development" courses. With reference to Skinner and Vygotsky's work. Very interesting and a fast, easy read.

Interesting but wordy.......2006-11-04

This is an interesting book and it goes into detail about little minds, but some of it may be too technical for parents who just want to learn the games and not why or how they stimulate. Some parents might not have time to read all the background info and would like to just get down to the fun part, which is a little bit difficult with this book. Still, if you have the time to devote to this book, it really is interesting and enlightening and may encourage you to try to develop even more games to stimulate your child's growing mind which is certainly a good thing!

prefer Perlmutter's Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten.......2006-10-24

If you are looking for more activities / games to play with your child, there are over 30 in chapter 3 of David Perlmutter's book, Raise A Smarter Child by Kindergarten.

How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends (How Do Dinosaurs)

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Great Book
Sounds Great!
a must own for any child
A HUGE hit!
GREAT BOOK!!

How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends (How Do Dinosaurs)
Jane Yolen
Manufacturer: The Blue Sky Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 043985654X

Book Description

What if a dinosaur's friends come to play? Does he mope, does he pout if he can't get his way? Does he hide all his dump trucks, refusing to share? Does he throw his friends' coloring books up in the air? Time and time again, children are told to "play nice." This brilliantly illustrated board book is packed with rhymes that will teach children how. Mark Teague's laugh-aloud illustrations, along with Jane Yolen's playful text, will show children that "playing nice" can be easy and fun. Perfect for parents to read aloud with their children, this book is as humorous as it is instructive.

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......2007-09-11

This book was a great continuation of all the dinosaur books in this series. My 3yr. old daughter just loved it!

Sounds Great!.......2007-09-11

I saw this book in Kohl's department store and my kids leafed through it while I hunted for backpacks & shoes. Books were not on the list that day, so we left it behind, but after seeing it in my son's Scolastic catalog, I think I'll order it from Amazon! Love anything that teaches positive manners and reinforces my instruction.

a must own for any child.......2007-08-12

My 16 month old daughter loves having us read this book to her over and over and over again, she never gets sick of it, love how it has all the different names of the types of dinosaurs too (even though we don't know how to say some of them!). Can't wait to get all the other "how do dinosaurs" books for her!

A HUGE hit!.......2007-07-15

My 2 year old loves books and when I asked the children's librarian for some suggestions for my dinosaur lover she suggeted all of Jane Yolen's dinosaur books. My son adores this one. I like it since it has a wonderful message about sharing with friends and we are working on that skill. We read it over and over and I am now going to have to purchase it to keep at home. The board book is a great size since we can take it in the car or in the diaper bag.

GREAT BOOK!!.......2007-05-12

These Dinosaur books are great for both boys and girls. I brought this book (and two other Jane Yolen Dinosaur books) into my sons pre-school
class and they all begged me to read more...These books are great and they teach lessons in a very funny way.

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Great for moms new to the game
Great book!
if you have any parental intuition, you're doing fine and don't need this book.
NO New ideas in this book-only buy if u have not bought ANY baby items.
Contains the activies I'd thought of, and more

Baby Play (Gymboree)
Wendy S Masi , Roni Cohen Leiderman , Dr. Wendy S. Masi , and Dr. Roni Cohen Leiderman
Manufacturer: Creative Publishing International
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Binding: Paperback

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 0865734348

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Direct babies with interactive activities that are easy, skill building, and fun! Over 100 activities for babies 0 - 12 months. A variety of activities organized by appropriatemess for each month of life. Developed in consultation with the play experts at Gymboree.

Customer Reviews:

Great for moms new to the game.......2007-10-12

If you are someone who has not worked with children or been around children for an extended period of time this book would be very helpful. It has creative and fun ideas for playtime with the ones under 6 months that my husband found very useful. I recommend it for husbands, grandparents and new moms.

Great book!.......2007-09-28

I love this book! It is filled with great ideas, and organized by age range. The pictures are large and very helpful along with the descriptions of the activities. Even if you think you may have thought of some of these ideas on your own, it's hard to know when to introduce each activity and what specific skills it is building. This book is a great resource.

if you have any parental intuition, you're doing fine and don't need this book........2007-09-18

i found the activities in this book uninspiring. i was already implementing 99% of them just in my everyday interactions with my infant. i was hoping for something that would further enhance the development of my child, but it turns out the things that naturally occur to a parent are just fine. my baby is only 3 months, so perhaps the activites for older babies will be more interesting. the play for newborns was a disappointment.

NO New ideas in this book-only buy if u have not bought ANY baby items........2007-08-13

This book is very good and give you a lot of ways to interact with your infant and to help his development. However, a lot of the things are things child development books tell you to do and include things that are products on the market.
For example, the book has how to make tummy rolls from towels but, i had already purchased the boppy tummy time mat for this. If i had known or even thought about this towel method before I bought and opened the package then I would not have purchased the boppy.
A couple other examples are the play mat and mobile. This book tell you how to make them with things you already have in the home. Not much use if you have already assembled the baby's room and used the play mat. This is pretty much how things in the book are. There are no NEW ideas in this book.

Contains the activies I'd thought of, and more.......2007-07-23

Thanks to other reviewers, I found this book to be exactly what I wanted!

I use this book to vary the activities I do with my daughter and ensure I am working on varied developmental milestones. I particularly love the airplane exercise that has enabled me to work with my daughter on neck and abdomen physical development despite her reflux problem.

Pros
Broken down by age
Explains what's being developed in your child by the activity
Great for a first time parent

Cons
A couple of the activities seemed dangerous to me, so I skipped them
If you have a strong imagination, then maybe you don't need the book

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Boyton Rocks!
Think twice about this one...we don't like the messages it sends
Cute Book
Cute way to start the day!
"EW"'

Hey! Wake Up!
Sandra Boynton
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0761119760

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Boynton is back! Joining Barnyard Dance! and Birthday Monsters!, here is Hey! Wake Up! a good-morning book with the irrepressible language, the inimitable illustrations, the irresistible cast of characters only Sandra Boynton could create.

Yawn.

Stretch.

Touch your toes.

Shimmy shimmy shimmy,

Wiggle your nose.

Just watch out for the broccoli stew. (Ew.)

Customer Reviews:

Boyton Rocks!.......2007-09-24

Sandra Boyton books are always a big hit at our house-she writes some terrific children's books that all kids seem to love!

Think twice about this one...we don't like the messages it sends.......2007-04-15

We're generally big Boynton fans at our house, but I am very glad that we previewed this title from the library. I was looking for a book to complement Pajama Time and Hey! Wake Up! seemed like an appropriate title. But like another reviewer, we didn't really like the "Ew" comment about the broccoli stew nor the large animals being told to go do big guy things. Perhaps older children would find this amusing, but I was choosing a book to read aloud to a baby - a book that would be read dozens if not hundreds of times over the next few years - and I really didn't want to reenforce the idea of not liking something without even trying it nor that one could be too big (or too small) to do something. Sorry, Sandra...this one is not becoming part of our library. On the other hand, in the Broccoli song on Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side (Book & CD), after much protest, the child says "Yum" [We love all three of Boynton's musicals for children]. Likewise for a more positive message about size try Jez Alborough's Hit the Ball, Duck! where after being declared too small, Frog ultimately saves the day and shows that he isn't.

Cute Book.......2007-01-12

Catchy rhymes make this an endearing book. Kids get a laugh out of "broccoli stew". A typical book for Boynton.

Cute way to start the day!.......2006-03-28

This is the second of three books I read to my infant son each morning as part of his waking routine. (Another Boynton favorite, "Snuggle Puppy," is the first book I read.) It's such a precious way to start the day by watching his eyes light up and his grin grow wider as we read through these sweet books. I especially enjoy the cute placements of "ew" in the rhyme.

"EW"'.......2005-11-13

A little disappointing after reading Barnyard Dance, but a good rhythm none the less. I don't like the "ew" in reference to broccoli stew. I guess I'm for encouraging kids to eat their vegetables. Also, the small animals tell large animals to go do big guy things because they're too large. I don't like the implication there either (no, I'm not large).

Elmo's Big Lift-And-look Book (Great Big Board Book)

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Elmo's Big Lift and Learn Book
Elmo's Big Lift-And-Look Book
A Mixed Bag: Great Book, Low Quality
Entertaining and educational!!
my almost 2 y.o demands this book EVERY night

Elmo's Big Lift-And-look Book (Great Big Board Book)

Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Sesame Street The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

ASIN: 0679844686
Release Date: 1994-02-01

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Count to 10, explore the alphabet, discover shapes, learn about opposites, and find the missing teddy bear in this big, colorful board book. Sesame Street's beloved Elmo guides young readers to lift more than 60 flaps to reveal humorous and edifying surprises. Over the word "dry," Grover gazes unsuspectingly into a garden hose. Turn the flap and guess what happens! Grover learns all about "wet." A towering pyramid of alphabet blocks contains objects starting with the same letter behind each flap: alligator, book, cookies. Large, sturdy flaps allow rough-tough toddler hands to clutch and pull as much as they want with minimal risk of tearing. Children will adore the bright, bold illustrations of Jim Henson's familiar Muppet characters and beg to return to this book again and again. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter

Book Description

Illustrated in full color. Turn playtime into learning time with lovable Sesame Street Muppet Elmo and the biggest flap book ever! Toddlers can lift alphabet blocks to find a word beginning with each letter, open doors and windows on Sesame Street to count objects from one to ten, lift flaps that reveal opposites, and help Elmo find his teddy! More than 60 sturdy flaps--10 to 26 per spread--are part of the page, not glued on, and are made to stand up to the repeated wear and tear kids are sure to inflict with lots of lifting, looking, seeking, finding, and fun!

Customer Reviews:

Elmo's Big Lift and Learn Book.......2007-09-24

This is a great book for little girls and boys. My grandsons, ages 9 mos and 2 yrs, love it! It's a book they interact with, and they love that.

Elmo's Big Lift-And-Look Book.......2007-08-28

So many people gave good reviews to this book, but I cannot. I just received it and the flaps came off the first time I tried to open them. I noticed another recent review that indicated a similar problem. This makes me wonder if there has been a change in the manufacturing process. The pictures are very cute, but I had to spend an hour taping all the flaps. How annoying. Beware!!

A Mixed Bag: Great Book, Low Quality.......2007-08-24

I bought this book for my 15-month old son. I agree with all of the reviews listing this book as highly educational and fun for little ones...I mean, who can resist Elmo and the Sesame Street gang? My son even chuckled at Grover getting the hose dumped over him ("dry" versus "wet" when you lift the flap).

What disappointed me, however, was the flimsiness of the flaps. I don't know if the alphabet block flaps were supposed to be completely detached but about half of those flaps came off completely upon the first look-through of the book. Hence, those are scattered about the house somewhere, never to be found again, I'm sure. Maybe I got a lemon book? Additionally, my son had already torn several of the flaps on the last pages of the book (where you help find Elmo's teddy bear for him) completely off of the book. He wasn't that rough with the flaps, but the manufacturers of a flap book for the toddler set should reinforce the folding line!

My only beef with the content of the book is when trying to find Elmo's bear. Why didn't they hide it under a flap? My son, after a few readings of the book, wasn't interested in opening any of the flaps b/c he knew to run down to the corner of the page where the bear is sitting.

Recommended book, nonetheless, but you may want to tape all of the folding lines in anticipation of their destruction! =-)

Entertaining and educational!!.......2007-07-25

I have nothing but great things to say about this book, it is one of my 22 month old daughter's favorites. The book is very large and colorful with a lot of learning opportunities and fun Sesame Street characters. The first couple of pages are characters and other items hiding under the flaps (Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, cupcakes, shoes, hot dogs, etc.). The next 2 pages are lift the flap alphabet letters with a picture underneath each letter. Then there are 2 pages on different shapes with pictures (diamond is a kite, rectangle is a semi, circle is a sun) - and finally a lift the flap of things hiding in a classroom. It takes a while to get through all the book, and my daughter enjoys pointing everything out to me. I highly recommend this book!

my almost 2 y.o demands this book EVERY night.......2007-06-27

He loves lifting the flaps and finding what's under there... he has it memorized. The book is pretty sturdy too.

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Danny & The Dinosaur
Great book
a classic
Childhood memories...
Fun, Fun, Fun

Danny and the Dinosaur

Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0064440028
Release Date: 2008-01-22

Book Description

A day with a dinosaur

Danny's on the town with a real live dinosaur. From the ballpark to the zoo, these two are having one hundred million years of fun -- all in one day!

Customer Reviews:

Danny & The Dinosaur.......2007-07-03

This is another terrific book by Syd Hoff that brings back childhood memories. I loved it then and I still love it now. My kids enjoy reading this book over and over again. It is filled with colorful pictures and the story line is so cute and fun. Another great book by Syd Hoff.

Great book.......2007-01-11

I bought this book for my Grandson,and he loves it.His little Brother wants him to read it to him now too.I love to buy books for my Grandchildren.I am a avid reader and I want them to have the same experience.This is a great book.It is easy to read,even for a early reader,and it is also so cute.All my kids have loved it.It has been around for years.

a classic.......2006-11-10

This book is a classic. My kids always pick it out at the library to read.

Childhood memories..........2006-04-30

Maybe I am just going on childhood memories, but after all the Disney books (Snow White, Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio), Danny and the Dinosaur was my favorite book. I remembered it after twenty years... so it must have made an impact. The letters were big, but it wasn't simple like "See Jane run. See Dick run. See Jane and Dick run." It was a very simple book with a simple plot -- and now I have a [...] son who is in his DINOSAUR EVERYTHING phase, and I am getting it for him! (I know this review isn't helpful, but I just wanted to add to it) The cover has longed changed (it used to be a simpler off-white cover) but it's still the same cute Danny and his dinosaur.

Fun, Fun, Fun.......2006-02-22

Danny and the Dinosaur is a delightful tale of imagination and good-humored fun. Danny visits a museum where he meets a dinosaur looking for a little bit of fun after 100 million years of just hanging around. They go and have a great time playing in the city. No one is hurt or placed in danger, and everyone has a good time.

I pulled out my old copy of Danny and the Dinosaur for my 3 year-old son the other day after I came across it by happenstance in an old box. My son fell in love with it, just as I did at his age. We read it so much that it fell apart by the end of the week. I replaced it with this version, which is just as handsome as the 1974 version I originally used. It remains one of my son's favorites still, even after a month. This is a great book for a toddler with a good imagination as well as an outstanding book for beginning readers.

The "Sign, Sing, and Play" Kit (Baby Sign Language Basics)

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Great kit for beginners!
LOVE THIS KIT!
A Multi-wonderful product!
excellent baby sign language kit!
One kit does it all

The "Sign, Sing, and Play" Kit (Baby Sign Language Basics)
Monta Briant , and Susan Z
Manufacturer: Hay House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1401907660

Book Description

This kit includes:
• The Sign, Sing, and Play! Book
• Flash Cards for Signing and Games
• The âSongs for Little Handsâ CD, with
Signing Melodies and Activity Guide

When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun!
Using signs in playful and engaging ways gets babies’ attention and stimulates their interest in signing like nothing else.

The Sign, Sing, and Play Kit contains everything you need to have the most fun ever with signingâ Sign along with the flashcards as you make up a story about the pictures, Sing and sign a song along with the âSongs for Little Handsâ music CD by award-winning singer/songwriter Susan Z (an illustrated Sing-and-Sign guide is included), Play a game with your baby from Sign, Sing, and Play, a book of signing games and activities for at home and on the go!

Get ready to have fun and watch your baby’s signing really take off!

Customer Reviews:

Great kit for beginners!.......2007-07-14

I love this kit. My baby just turned 6 months old, and we are beginning to sign to her (she already recognizes milk). The flash cards are very easy to understand. My 10 year old memorized all the signs from the flash cards in a day, and loves teaching them to us. The CD is great, too. The music is very enjoyable, and the songs are simple, but very catchy; you won't get bored after listening to them several times. I love the songbook, too. It makes it SO easy to sign during the songs because you're not signing every single word. The sturdy cardboard box is a plus. The only reason I gave four stars instead of 5 is that there are two songs with "Mommy and Daddy" in them, and we all know there are many "non-traditional" families out there, and it would have been nice (and pretty easy, I think) to have words that include all children's families. Other than that, it's wonderful.

LOVE THIS KIT!.......2007-07-05

I have been signing with my kids for 5 years now--and my kids now are 5, 3, and 1. I was looking for songs to use with signing besides the basic basics..and this book has it all. My 5 and 3 year old LOVE singing and signing the songs with me, and my 1 year old tries to sign along. My 3 year old will just start singing the songs on the cd so I see the songs as easy to remember, fun and appealing to kids. I see this as a GREAT activity to do in the car on trips and a wonderful way have fun together as a family. We have gotten through half the songs and I am saving the rest for our next trip! The signs are easy to figure out from the pictures and its just fabulous! I listened to Monta speak once and she is fabulous too! Definitely a great kit for moms that want to sign with their babies and toddlers. The cd is the best as well to add the music and fun into the whole experience! Definitely a great buy!

A Multi-wonderful product!.......2007-06-05

First of all, this kit is so complete. It's fun and easy to use. It comes with a great CD with beautiful and easy songs to pick up and sign to. It has a book of signs just for the songs. Then, it has great flash cards that are really easy to understand. And finally, it contains a main book of all kinds of signs which I've misplaced do to a move, but of what I remember, it was loaded with info and easy to decipher. I use the signs all the time and sing the songs and she always smiles in reconition when I do. She hasn't signed back yet, but hopefully one day I'll get my reward. If you want to teach your child to sign, this is a fun and easy place to start. It also has a great free website in it that you can refer to. I really enjoy using the kit and would give it a higher rating, but I misplaced the main book before I could use it and so I can't properly rate the entire kit, plus I don't know yet if it works.

excellent baby sign language kit!.......2007-02-06

This kit is great!!! It comes with a song book thats shows the signs and words to the accompanying Music cd. And it has an activty book that gives tons of simple games and activities for mom & baby. There is also a set of flashcard/picures with a picture of a real object on one side and the sign on the other side. All of this comes in a sturdy storage box. I can't wait to give this as a baby gift!

One kit does it all.......2007-01-29

This kit is fabulous. There is a song book that goes with the CD so you don't have to flip through the bigger book to find the words and signs. The larger book is a great reference for signs and activities to remember them. The flashcards are awesome, they have a color picture of the object on one side and then the word and sign on the other. The child learns sign language and how to read at the same time. Everyone in my sign language play group wants one after I brought it to play group last week. The other moms quickly picked up the songs and we were having a ball in no time with our infants.

Wonderplay: Interactive & Developmental Games, Crafts, & Creative Activities for Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

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Pretty but empty of substance
Neat book!
a little disappointing
A staple if you have children
A great resource idea book!

Wonderplay: Interactive & Developmental Games, Crafts, & Creative Activities for Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers
Fretta Reitzes , Beth Teitelman , and Lois Alter Mark
Manufacturer: Running Press Book Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1561385751

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For children, anytime is playtime. "Wonderplay" is a parent's guide to active child's play. With more than 200 activities--games, craft projects, cooking, music, dancing, and more--this wonderful book offers many ways to have fun with children and encourage them to learn and grow.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty but empty of substance.......2007-09-26

This is a great book to look at. It scream's GIFT ME! But if you look inside this book, you will find that you could do better with any number of game and craft resources. It is not useful if you have any other busy books.

Neat book!.......2007-02-03

I like this book for the simple fact that once you've tried everything you can think of to entertain your toddler, ALAS, comes this book through the mail. There's really neat activities, recipes , and crafts. It goes from infant to preschooler..so you'll get good use out of it. I would recommend this book to any mother.

a little disappointing.......2007-01-12

i really decided to buy this book because i wanted to find some activities i could do with my child that would help his development. but i was disappointed to find out that there was like 3 pages of stuff for children ages 0 to 6 months. this book was advertised as having stuff from birth to toddler, it shouldn't have misled people about what was in the book. i mean all there is for under 6 months is some rhymes and a couple of activities. i thought there was going to be some stuff about activities to help them reach their developmental milestones. i mean their are probably not many people that don't know the few rhymes and games that are in the book.

A staple if you have children.......2006-12-24

Engaging activities--simple and creative. Years of fun, playing, exploring, and learning. Easy to understand and do. We have loved it and given it as a gift to new parents, too. Wonderful!

A great resource idea book!.......2005-09-27

I get a TON of ideas from Wonderplay by Fretta Reitzes. I'm a home daycare provider and I'm always looking for ideas to do with my daycare kids. I don't know what I would do with out this book. It'a MUST have for home daycare providers and parents of small kids

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear (Child's Play Library)

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The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Stawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear
Great book for young kids
A DELIGHTFUL BOOK WITH FEW WORDS.
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry,And The Big Hungery Bear
Pleasantly surpised

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear (Child's Play Library)
Don Wood , and Audrey Wood
Manufacturer: Child's Play International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0859536599

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A rhyming story of opposites that uses animal charactistics to help us explore ourselves and our feelings.

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The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Stawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear.......2007-10-11

This has been a favorite in our family. My three children loved it and quickly learned to read this. Making them feel so proud to sit and read it by themselves. I taught school and made sure that the children had this as one of thier stories. All of the children loved reading it. I now have bought a book for each of my grandchildren. My daughter was so excited that it was sticking out of her daughter's 1st. Birthday gift bag. It is a must have in our family and I am sure would be in yours.

Great book for young kids.......2007-09-22

No household with young children should be without this book. Great read and fun for all. We conisder it a classic.

A DELIGHTFUL BOOK WITH FEW WORDS........2007-09-20

As has been pointed out, there are few words to the text of this work, but to be honest, it really does not need them. the art work, the pictures, are absolutely some of the best I have seen, and pretty well tell the story visually. The text just acts as a sort of prompter. A small mouse has a very big strawberry and is quite fearful that a very big and hungry bear will eat this wonderful, perfect berry. He goes through all sorts of manipulations to hide the berry from the bear. The story is delightful, the color eye catching and it is a blast to read it with a young child. This is a very talented artist and author who have turned out quite a number of books. Personally, this is one of my favorite, but then I like mice, bears and certainly strawberries. I also love reading books to children and they all love it. This is one you will want to purchase for your children. Highly recommend.

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry,And The Big Hungery Bear.......2007-08-23

We loved the story and the illustrations. We had it for years and read it to our grandchildren, who enjoyed it very much.
Perfect for ages two to six.
We ordered it for my sisters grandchildren{our grandneice and grandnephew} We want them to experience the story also.

Pleasantly surpised.......2007-08-13

The artwork and story in this book are woven together brilliantly. My two-year-old daughter loved it. So did her six-year-old cousin. Highly recommend it. Very cute. Sort of teaches sharing as well.

Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (Wee Sing)

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Hours and Hours of fun for toddlers
my 2 year old's favorite
My daughter likes this audio cassette
We Love Wee Sing
Wee Sing is Pretty Darn Good for Kiddie Music...

Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (Wee Sing)
Pamela Conn Beall , and Susan Hagen Nipp
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0843113626

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The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister!

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Hours and Hours of fun for toddlers.......2007-04-07

I bought this when my daughter was around 18 months she just loved following along with the fingerplays. Hours and Hours of entertainment.

my 2 year old's favorite.......2006-10-12

We bought many children's song for my son, and this is his favorite. He loves to buzzz when he hears the bee comes, and claps his hand when he hears "clap you your hand as slowly as you can ...". He didn't talk too much before, but this tape really makes him much more vocal then before. The music is so soothing and he listens to it every day before he goes to bed.

My daughter likes this audio cassette.......2006-07-30

I bought this while my daughter was less than two years old. She still likes to listen this even after she is four now.

Many songs are very popular and also taught in school. It is good for parents like me, who may not know what exactly their kid is singing, to also enjoy these songs with your kids at home. It comes with a book for parents with the instruction on the fingerplays.

I think that this book is well designed. One thing they can improve is to have the book more colorful. Otherwsie, considering its low price, I think that this is a good buy.

We Love Wee Sing.......2006-02-27

My cousin gave me her children's old Wee Sing Bible Songs and I played it for my daughter one day. She really liked it, more than the other children's music I've played for her. I bought several of the Wee Sing collections and my daughter loves them all.

They seem to all be classic children's songs sung in their original format (as another reviewer said, with none of the TV character weird versions) by children.

This one is her very favorite, though, and we have listened to this almost daily since she was one (she's now almost three). There are fingerplays that go with many of the songs. My daughter has learned the words and actions to most of these..... some of them, like the address song, the counting song, and the ABCs have even been educational!

The CD comes with a songbook, too, and my daughter really enjoys hearing me play the songs on the piano for her (they only give the single note treble clef part - but that's enough to make my daughter happy - and it's all I could play anyway).

This whole series is really wonderful and I highly recommend it for young children!

Wee Sing is Pretty Darn Good for Kiddie Music..........2000-11-15

Children's Songs and Fingerplays is my 2 1/2 year old son's favorite, and one I enjoy a lot, too. It is a collection of the classics I had forgotten (in my young mother sleep-deprived state). The songs are in the original version I remember (not Barney-ized!) The collection encourages dance and fingerplays so it is good rainy-day fun. Although the music is not acoustic, the synthesizer is not so obvious and the music is pretty good--not at all grating on the nerves of exhausted parents. The children's voices are what grab the attention--they are really good. My son inadvertantly ruined his cassette so we are trying to replace it with the CD...Amazon, hurry up and replenish your stock!

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