Patent ID: 7140643

Claim:
An apparatus for teaching early learning skills comprising: a book binder having a spine portion, a front cover connected to an edge of said spine portion by a first hinge and a back cover connected to another edge of said spine portion by a second hinge; a page binder area on an inner surface of said spine portion, said page binder area having a page fastening means; a plurality of pages removably attached to said book binder, each of said pages having an attachment edge portion extending along an edge of said page and being connected to a remainder of said page by an edge hinge, each of said pages having a first page fastening means disposed on said attachment edge portion for cooperating with said page binder area page fastening means for selective attachment to and removal from said page binder area, each of said pages including a mounting surface having a symbol device fastening means, wherein each of said pages has a second page fastening means disposed on said attachment edge portion for cooperating with said first page fastening means of another one of said pages to removably attach two of said pages together, whereby when said plurality of pages is attached to said book binder, a first one of said pages is attached to said page binder area page fastening means by said first page fastening means and each other one of said pages is attached by said first page fastening means to said second page fastening means of another one of said plurality of pages, and whereby each of said pages can be turned at said edge hinge and only one page of said plurality of pages can be removed from said book binder without removing at least another page of said plurality of pages; and a plurality of symbol devices each having a symbol device fastening means for cooperating with said mounting surface symbol device fastening means to removably attach said symbol devices to said mounting surface of a selected one of said pages.