Review: A fun and fascinating learning opportunity.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
The 26 animals selected to represent the letters of the alphabet include some very interesting choices (numbat and wallaby, to name a couple), many of which will be a first for your child.The images are of good to excellent quality, most enlarging with little distortion on my Kindle Fire HD7. There were a couple that were just average, but most were stunning.Each image is accompanied by a sentence or two giving an interesting fact about each animal. In what may be a first (including even mainstream publishers), I didn't notice any grammatical errors or typos -- excellent job of proofing!While many dismiss errors as being in "only a kids' book," I really feel that learning materials need to be held to an even higher standard, not lower -- how dispiriting and demotivating to discover you learned something wrong, and need to unlearn and relearn it. I can see how a child might lose trust in books, and a potential enthusiasm for learning and reading might be squandered. Well, not so with this book.One very minor wish would be to have had images that illustrated a couple of the interesting facts (perhaps secondary, smaller images, rather than replacing any current ones), so when the text mentions cygnets riding on their mother's back, or a hedgehog curling up, the child can actually see these behaviors.But this wish in no way detracts from what is already a great book, and, perhaps, unsatisfied curiosity may be a jumping-off point for further learning through other sources. Great book, thanks!