Customer Reviews

Blue Skidoos to the Planets! (Blue's Clues)

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My son is a HUGE fan of Blue's Clues and he's also fascinated by the solar system. We were both really excited when we found Blue Skidoos to the Planets because he loved the episode of the show. He couldn't wait to get home and put the stickers in the book. He is able to read the entire book by himself and he can sing the song, too. He's only six, but he can name all of the planets thanks to this book. Thank you Steve and Blue for being such wonderful friends to preschoolers!

My three year old knows all the planets thanks to Blue and Steve. This is the second time I have purchased this same book. My son placed the reusable stickers in the black dishwasher. It looked just like outer space and he would sing the song over and over. It just so happened that Mommy actually needed to wash the dishes, and the heat from the dry cycle melted the stickers! So I had to get a new book for him. So please, don't place the stickers where they can melt, or your child my have a melt down of his own!

I avoided this book for some time. I wasn't interested in anything with "stickers" for my young son. (I could just see them being attached to the wood furniture.) At some point we ended up with the book. I was shocked that the "stickers" were actually "colorforms", something that I had been looking for. The "stickers" are made of a thin plastic with the pictures printed on them. The "pages" of the book are made of a stiff board material.

Ironically I was looking for colorforms for my son. When I inquired at the local toy stores they all told me that Colorforms were no longer in production. <sigh>

One of the best episode's of the Blue's Clues television series is the one that introduces the solar system. "Well, the sun's a hot star .... Mercury's hot too. Venus is the brightest planet .... etc."

There is not much text here. Basically the song is repeated twice, with text bubbles advising you where to place the many colorful and durable stickers depicting the planets, a shooting star, a rocket and various other solar system-y things.

My four year old space nut was not interested in this book. We lost some of the colorforms too. :( I thought it was great, but he doesn't enjoy it. Not enough action maybe? I'm hoping he'll like it when he's a little older........

Very fun, educational book. We love it when Blue Skidoos! This book lets you learn about the Solar System in a fun way. Blue and Steve are so cute in their capes!

My father turned 51 this September, a month and a half before his first grandchild, my daughter, turned 2. When I was a child, he spent hours with my sister and I star-gazing, taking us to the planetarium, talking, thinking, breathing astronomy. I was 8 when the Right Stuff came out in theaters, and yet my 6 year old sister and I saw it on the big screen, even so young. So, this birthday, what better gift to give him than a copy of that movie on DVD and a not-so-subtle invitation for him to help make my daughter as starry-eyed as I am.

My daughter already loved Blues Clues, and this book is fantastic in its simplicity. She identifies easily with the characters, the text is simple enough for her to remember and it may even be among the first books she actually reads herself, plus my father gets so much joy from reading it with her, helping her to pronounce the planets' names. It IS simple, and might, if it weren't for the Colorforms stickers, but TOO simple for a 3 or 4 year old, but it is absolutely perfect for my 2 year old. She and my father give it a two thumbs up.

Also, for the record, as near as I can tell, Colorforms have never been out of production. I could be wrong, but I'm sure that colorforms were available all through the 80's, since many popular 80's cartoons have special Colorforms sets. There may have been a dryspell in the 90's, but I also know that as long ago as 1999 or 2000 new character sets of colorforms were popping up all over the place, and dozens are now available.

This is a simple, not too many details book about the planets. It is a good place to get kids wondering what is up there with a catchy little song from the Steve era of the show.