Review: Nice Christmas Themed Learn How to Pronounce Letter Sounds Picture Book, Picture Related Games a Nice Bonus Too!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
There's a lot of these A-Z learn the order of the alphabet, learn how to pronounce letter sounds in words type of picture books out there.  This one's Christmas themed and importantly it uses stuff everyone (or at least most kids) associate with Christmas, it's not trying to ram down any religious beliefs, true meaning of Christmas agenda.  Which I think is a great thing.  There's nothing used for the letters that will offend of put off side anyone.The only item used which is a bit bizarre is R is for Red Poinsettias.  This is the only letter entry which is talking about something very specific, and something most kids likely won't know, although there is a picture of the flowers.  Not sure why the author didn't just go something simple like with the other letters such as R is for Reindeer, or Rudolph or something like this.  Most of the letters also are part of a rhyming sentence which adds to the fun.  There are various types of illustrations from cartoon, to computer graphic to the odd photo such as the Red Poinsettias.This book also has free games (not computer ones so you don't need any specific type of Kindle to be allowed to download this book). At the end there are a few word/picture type activities such as find a list of pictured items in an image, or the classic to almost identical illustrations where you have to spot the differences.  These are a nice bonus.  What is also a nice bonus is that this is one of those rare self-published Kindle books that is actually formatted properly with the text and pictures being on the same page.  Unfortunately this is a rarity these days so is great to see when it happens.