Customer Reviews

LeapFrog Tag Activity Storybook The Amazing Spider-Man: The Lizard's Tale

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

First off... we LOOOVE the Tag Pen and the other books we've purchased. My son is 4.5 and is already devouring these books in a feverish pace. We got this Spidey one thinking it would be much like the others we've read (Pirates, Diego, Cars, etc.). It's not. First off, it's a comic book... whole-heartedly. It has comic art and comic humor, and comic edgy-ness. That being said, it was a bit too much for my guy. The premise of the story involves a scientist who's experiment goes haywire and turns him into a huge, wild beast-like lizard. The lizard-man drawing is pretty spooky and he's shown acting crazed on most pages. And, the other part of the plot is that the scientist's son is desperately trying to help Spiderman help his father reverse the botched experiment. Little boy crying about his father being in trouble... also, not something my son felt so good about.

We didn't get much further than trying to read the story once through, so I can't comment on the educational value of this one. The other books were all so mind-blowingly great! Fun, wholesome, and amazingly educational. I'm am really sad that this one didn't work out. Maybe next year it'll be less scary.

Sadly, you can't preview the books before you purchase them... so, I hope this description helps. But, I'm thinking this Spiderman book is probably also on-par with the Star Wars one, and the Ben 10 one. Bummers...

My 5 year old is a big Spiderman fan and loves this book. He enjoys using his Tag reader to "read" it by himself. He is thrilled to hear Spiderman's voice and all of the sound effects. Both of my sons (the other is 3) have always loved books but this is just a new and different way for them to spend time "reading". It's not a board book so the pages are thin and could rip if you have a baby in the house who is prone to ripping up books. A great buy.

I bought my son (age 4)a LeapFrog® Tag Reading System (16 MB) for Christmas - a few days later we bought my second son (age 6) one as well and this book for him. Each child in your house should have a tag reader - and any child into super heros should have this in their book collection.

This book is set up like a comic book, the kids love the narrator in the book (I'm guessing that's why a reviewer was freaked out) but it's like old time radio talk narrator (pretty cool if you ask me) What boy don't like spider man. Really not an easy read for the lil kids but they just love it.. I wouldn't necessarily call this an educational as in to start learning from book. But for Spiderman in the tag book for a young boy, pretty awesome!

My daughter (4.5 years)really likes spiderman, so I bought this Tag book for her.
Honestly, I didn't realize that it was a comic book meaning the naration is in "bubbles", and
the pen doesn't read word by word, like the other Tag books we have, but rather reads each "bubble".
she still likes it.

Leapfrog has a lot of books. this book is amazing. our 5yr old loves to read it again and again. go for it.

My son loves this book. It came very fast in the mail and has not disappointed.

My 5 year old grandson loves this reading system and is always excited to get new books

My nephew is in kindergarden; he is learning to read and is into Spiderman--so this is a great combination for him to learn! Product was delivered in a very timely manner with no problems. Thank you!!

I bought this book for my 4 year old son since he likes Spiderman (which boy doesn't like Spiderman?). When I first opened it, it looked like a comic book. It was hard for my son to follow since all the word were kind of small and in the comic book bubble. My son liked the cover but when he opened it, he didn't like it. My son said the Lizard looked too scary and didn't want to look at it again. This is a definitely an expensive comic book and not helpful with learning to read if a child doesn't want to open it. This was a waste of money. My son liked the other Tag books with larger letters with familiar and friendlier characters like Cars, Dora, Diego, Toys Story 3.