1001 Things to Spot at Christmas

Usborne 1001 Things to Spot

by Alex Frith, Teri Gower (Illustrator)

This is a jolly puzzle book stuffed full of Christmas things to find and count. Busy scenes, including Christmas Land, a snowball fight and Santa's workshop, burst with things for children to find, count and talk about. It helps develop vital word and number skills.

Genres: Christmas, Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 2009

About the author

Alex Frith has been a children's non-fiction author since 2005. Working exclusively for Usborne Publishing, he has written over 50 books covering almost any subject you can think of, from the origins of the Universe to the meaning behind world religions, from extinct animals to prototype AIs, and from Japanese legends to Norse mythology. Two of his books have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young's People's Book Prize: See Inside Inventions (2012), and 100 Things to Know About Space (2017).

Alex grew up in a house surrounded by comics and graphic novels, and has a lifelong passion for the medium. Beyond the comics he photocopied and passed around the playground of his primary school, he wrote the 4-part series 'Digital Graffiti' with artist Gez Fry in 2003, and has had short story comics published in FutureQuake and the Asteroid Belter.

Reviews

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The kids, especially my son, love this series! Not exactly reading, but so great for counting, number recognition and vocabulary (and visual discrimination).

One of my husband's favorite books to "read" with the kids :) The Christmas version was super cute, love the illustrations and the variety of items to find / varying in numbers up to 10.

[Meghan Bohn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dozens and dozens of elves, fairies, pixies, imps, gnomes, dolls, and angels, and they're all white. Even in the tropics. That's certainly...something for a seek and find book.

[Aimee Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

No words in these books, but my kids love finding the objects shown and it is a good brain exercise.

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great quality book! So much fun to sit with my two year old granddaughter and talk about the pictures. We look for the items to find and discuss what they are doing or what the animals say. She absolutely loves this book. She sat for 15 minutes which is a record!

[Joy Gerbode · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun book to look at over and over again, because there are so many things to find, that even if you find them all, you won't remember where they all are next time, and you'll have to find them all over again.

[Jules · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for kids learning to read