Customer Reviews

Amazing Mazes (Kumon's Practice Books)

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This book is perfect for your preschooler!!! Hours of fun. Much different than typical books of mazes. My son (4 years), loves these because there are streets in maze shapes and many different themes of mazes. This is great practice for pre-writing skills. We always trace with out finger, then a pencil, and then a highlighter! This tip provides extra practice and makes the book last longer. This is one of my son's favorite activities. He would complete the book in one sitting if we let him. It is that much fun!

I just got my 5 year old this book and she loves it. Almost half of the mazes are rendered in a beatiful isometric view with decorations, while the other half are not as decorated but offer more challenging and complex mazes, so it has a really nice learning curve.

The quality of the paper is great

I am asked that question by my daughter (age 5) almost every day. She loves doing these mazes. I actually take them to church with us so that she can sit quietly and do them during the service. She likes figuring out how to manuever her way through the mazes. Lots of fun.

I have an independent 4 year old who usually doesn't want help but loves to do "schoolwork" so this book is a great middle ground. It is fun and easy for him to navigate on his own -- great for providing a little peace and quiet!

We got this book for our 5 year old who is obsessed w/ mazes. He would have done the whole book in one sitting if we had let him.

When my now 7 year old was 4-5 years old, we started buying the Kumon maze books and he just loved learning how to get through each maze. These workbooks are colorful & great for traveling or days away from home. I really think that all of the Kumon series of workbooks carefully ease a child into whatever subject matter you pick. If your little one likes mazes and wants to master them, then I highly recommend this series as a place to start. Good luck & have fun!

The kids are actually pretty bored with mazes, but I bought this book anyway because the graphics are so eye-poppingly beautiful. (I bought it at the same time as I purchased the Kumon book of Easy Crafts, also reviewed here on Amazon)
The kids were intrigued, and so was I, and have requested these mazes regularly ever since I brought them home.
As homeschoolers, it's nice to take a "maze break" with between formal subjects, and the mazes are neither too difficult nor too hard for either child. I would say the mazes on the front (the 3-d, full-colour ones) are pretty easy; I can usually solve them at a glance, but perhaps the 3d throws off the kids, because they take a bit longer than usual. The back mazes (single-colour) seem more challenging in structure, yet somehow simpler to solve because of their visual simplicity.
The paper is nice and thick, giving it a more important feel than most "throw-away" mazes we can find and print off the Internet (where there's no shortage of mazes). The full-colour graphics also make these feel like a special thing, not just any other printable.
The mazes do somewhat escalate in difficulty, but generally, I just flip through the book until each kid finds a maze he/she wants to do. There is a nod to variety towards the end of the book, with character-shaped mazes and direction puzzles on the back of some of the later ones. There's also a "certificate" at the back that we will probably never use - we don't need a piece of paper to tell us we've done some mazes.
In general, I don't think these are wildly educational, but I bought them just for fun, and indeed, they have proven quite fun. Along with the Easy Crafts book, this maze book would be great for bringing along with kids to any confined situation where they can't run around as usual - airplane ride, hospital stay, grandparent visit. (perhaps not a restaurant, as you don't necessarily want glue everywhere!)
For the reasonable price of this book, I feel we've gotten great value - in fact, I've been pleasantly surprised, and would highly recommend this book.

This is the 4th of several levels of the mazes I have given as gifts to my grandson. The mazes are leveled so very well, and progression through them is delightful. I look forward to every new book as he grows with them.

This is the second Kumon maze book we've bought and my son will be 4 next month. He loves them and is very good at it. We love Kumon.

I have young twins. One of them will grab these books and a crayon and trace the mazes for nearly an hour. He won't even watch TV that long. He goes from front to back of the book and when he's done, he starts at the front again. He doesn't even care that he already has drawn on a page, he just traces again over and over. I have bought every book in the series.