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Geography Songs (Book & Cassette)

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Were you a success in Geography? Can you correctly identify the location of the countries in Europe other than Italy? What about identifying the countries of the former USSR? Geography Songs makes child play out of those geography questions that make many adults feel inadequate. The program includes a cassette tape with 23 catchy songs that teach the names and locations of the continents, oceans, planets, and 225 countries. Even preschoolers will be singing along to "The British Isles" and "The Former USSR". A book is included with 23 maps to label and color. We enjoyed coloring the large, easy to read maps while listening to our tape over and over. You can also work on geography while riding in the car. Our family thoroughly enjoys this book and has learned an unbelievable amount of information in a relatively short span of time. I highly recommend it (especially since I was one who struggled with geography).

33 songs teach all the countries, continents, oceans and solar system.
It comes with a CD or cassette, a book with lyrics, maps and illustrations and a 25"x36" world map. Easy to learn and lots of fun to sing!

The book is useful but I find the songs difficult to follow and not very teachable. Not really what I had hoped to use.

I bought this cd after my girls used it at a class this summer. It has been amazing! My girls are 12 and 8 and they now know ALL the countries of the world! The songs are cute and the girls sing them all the time. I have recommended this to many friends.

I've enjoyed this cassette since I was little and I *still* enjoy it! The reason is simple: The songs are catchy (easy to get stuck in your head!) and very informative. These songs cover pretty much all the countries of the world, all fifty U.S. states, the seven continents and the four oceans, and even the "nine" planets. (Yes, it's outdated, and it even fails to distinguish the sun as different from a planet on top of that, but overall this doesn't hurt the product.)

This is a fun and educational product that children and parents alike will most likely enjoy for years to come. But there are a few points to make...

- The songs are "inconsistent" with each other in a number of ways. For example, a few songs mention capital cities (i.e. Scandinavia, Mexico, and a brief mention of Alaska and Hawaii's capital cities after the Pacific States song), but for the most part no capitals are mentioned. Also, one might question the wisdom of making several songs covering the countries of Europe while trying to squeeze all the countries of Africa into a single song! Overall, however, this does not hurt the product, and in fact the Africa song is one of my family's very favorites!

- The songs CAN be kind of hard to decipher if you don't know what they're trying to say (i.e. "and Mali" in the Africa song can sound like "Emily", "Iraq" in the Middle East song can sound like "Erupt", and so on). The obvious solution is to use the included book, so as long as you hold on to it this shouldn't be a problem.

Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who wants to give their kids a head-start on geography - as long as you don't lose the book!

Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"

EDIT: I just realized that some of the songs in this are a bit outdated. The Africa song, for example, has some old names for countries. I still think this is a pretty good product, but I wanted to make sure you knew.

We found this at the library. My son is 3 but I needed something other than kiddy music. WOW, he loves this CD. It is adorable to hear a 3 year old singing all the songs about the US states. Through this he can now identify most of the US states on a map without singing - and all of them if he sings the songs. He can sing the rest of the songs, but the US are his very favorite. Such a great introduction to learning geography! My husband and I have learned a lot too and are getting a great refresher of our world geography! Wish Amazon carried this!!