Happy Holidays everyone! A humorous note: this week’s review has more words in it than the book itself! In this past year, one of our resident customers requested this book, “A is for Apple,” by Tiger Tales for their toddler,
Happy Holidays everyone! A humorous note: this week’s review has more words in it than the book itself! In this past year, one of our resident customers requested this book, “A is for Apple,” by Tiger Tales for their toddler, and it is now one of our best-selling board books!
“A is for Apple” is a fun and versatile way to start educating your young ones who are learning the alphabet. With holiday shopping here, this is a perfect gift for the toddlers on your list! Visually, this “trace-and-flip” book is pleasing to the eye with a soft sky blue painted background, as if it were created from the brushstrokes of an impressionist master, joined together with an assortment of fun and whimsical visuals to represent each letter, all illustrated lovingly by Georgie Birkett. Just look at that bee on the cover. It couldn’t be happier!
And its joyful demeanor sure is contagious! What’s more is that the book also engages the tactile senses and motor skills in many different ways! The letter on each page is grooved perfectly for curious fingers, and has directional arrows that they follow showing how to make each letter.
Then there is the “lift-the-flap” showing another wonderful picture and another word for that letter, such as “K is for Key” on the page and when you lift the flap there is a kite! This can also make for a great guessing game with toddlers before they lift the flap!
And our own Bookstore cat, Celeste (a.k.a. The Boss), was thrilled that “C is for Cat” (the flap shows Car but we just didn’t show her!). In its ninth printing and still going strong, this is one board book you won’t be “board” with anytime soon!
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Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
