Each durable book in the My Turn To Learn series is specially made for small hands!
Explore the exciting world of numbers, brought to life through this irresistibly adorable tabbed board book. My Turn To Learn Numbers uses simple, colorful images and bold, lively scenes to teach early counting concepts. The tabbed edges and thick, strong pages make it easy for young readers to flip through the book by themselves, revealing fun, colorful answers on every spread. Featuring a unique format and bright, bold art and design, these books offer an interactive reading and learning experience that can withstand even the most "hands-on" readers!
This sturdy little book in the MY TURN TO LEARN series is all about the Numbers from 1 to 10.
This book features an adorable chubby brown bear --he's "ONE bear"-- who appears on subsequent pages with TWO owls, THREE birds, etc.
What I really love about this book, besides the cute bear, is that it's super sturdy. The pages are not flexible in the least; but very thick and glossy. I would think they'd hold up very well.
What I'm a bit disappointed about is that numbers 6 thru 10 all appear on the same two pages. I understand that the book would probably be weaker with additional pages, but ideally I would have liked the pattern of two pages per number, with each number having it's own sturdy tab.
Moms and others are going to be able to get a lot of use out this book. The tabs are going to be good practice for chubby little fingers to learn with. And the color scheme and addition of animals and flowers are going to give us the opportunity to teach colors and the names of items first, and then numbers when that time comes.
There are birds (blue birds and owls), flowers, clouds, trees, snails, acorns, ladybugs and leaves, amongst other things to name.
A good selection for older babies. Start with naming colors and things, and then add on numbers later.
In 1865, Fyodor Dostoyevsky had managed to gamble most of his assets away. On top of that, he was trying to support his recently departed brother's family, and found himself owing a fortune to lenders. Too broke to afford decent meals or even pay his bills, he rushed Crime and Punishment and The Gambler out as fast as he could, taking shortcuts by the end of the former. Characters were referred to by nicknames instead of their full names; anything to keep the word count up but finish the book.
I'm reminded of this with My Turn to Learn Numbers. We spend time with one through five, getting to learn them and how the objects represented by each of the numbers can interact with each other in memorable ways. Then six through ten are slammed through the door in one page. And worst of all? Nine is a repeat of four, flowers. A different type of flower, but four was already only referred to as "flowers". How am I supposed to explain this sloppy rushed work to my child? Ironically, the beginning of the madcap race to the end is six snails.
I requested this at my library because it was one of the few board books to make any 2013 best-of lists. This one was on Kirkus' Best Picture Books for the Youngest Children. The great thing about this book is the plastic tabbed pages- it makes it easy for babies to flip through on their own and pretty impossible to break apart. I wasn't impressed with the book itself- it's a counting book but it counts some of the same things over again (four flowers and nine flowers plus there are flowers on every page). The computer illustrations are okay but there's a lot of pattern and some are quite busy whereas I think at this age simplicity is best.
A tabbed board book that showcases numbers 1-5 and tacks numbers 6-10 on a two page spread at the end. Not sure why all ten numbers weren't featured on tabs or why just numbers 1-5 were the focus; strange decisions there.
Digital artwork brings to mind scrapbooking projects. Great for sharing with babies and toddlers.
Woods (17 mo) could not get enough of this book. He loved flipping the pages and saying "HAT!" every time the bear had on a hat. I think this is one he could definitely grow with if we owned it (we checked it out from the library) because he doesn't know how to count yet, but this didn't discourage his love for this book. Highly recommend for younger toddlers!
4 is flowers, why make 9 flowers too? They couldn't think of one other thing that would work with their forestry theme? Lame. Really like the sturdy construction. Too bad the content of this series is so often dumb.
Very good concept board book with sturdy number tabs to visually show the numbers. Each page provides an opportunity to count and grasp the object which needs to be counted. Cute illustrations