LeapFrog My First LeapPad Educational Book: Tad's Silly Writing Fair

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• 3-5 years
• Not Compatibile with the Leappad Explorer

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008X35P
• Item model number: 20150
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 5 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,164 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

When Tad and his family go to the fair, rides and amusements such as the Ferris wheel, bumper cars and fishing for prizes encourage children to use the My First LeapPad pen to trace lines, circles, curves and other important strokes. This helps your child build the fine motor skills necessary to write letters in kindergarten. Preschoolers just place the flip book on the My First LeapPad System, pop in the cartridge, and touch any page with the Magic Pen to bring learning to life. What it Teaches: * Tracing letters * Shape Tracing * Letter names * Counting * Sounds

Product Description

Kids don't have to wait until the fair comes to town to enjoy the excitement of the Ferris wheel, bumper cars, games and more with this interactive book. As kids join LeapFrog's Tad and family at the fair, they learn all about animals and practice their writing skills. Each page features 2-3 darling animals with tracing lines, letting small hands practice letter strokes from A-Z. Includes fun games, songs, sounds and more. Compatible with My First LeapPad learning system only. Imported.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for teaching our daughter writing..., December 11, 2004

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Pete Vere (Ottawa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LeapFrog My First LeapPad Educational Book: Tad's Silly Writing Fair (Toy)

We own over a dozen books for My First LeapPad. This particular book is my daughter's second favorite. In fact, we own two versions of it, one in English and the other in French.

My wife and I purchased this book because our daughter needed help with her fine motor skills, especially when it came to writing letters and numbers. She wasn't lagging or anything, but she made the mistakes all three-year-olds make when trying to write.

Through fun activities, this book taught her to write in strait lines as well as proper curved lines. She learned to correctly print both capital and small letters. She also learned to correctly write her numbers. We were pleasantly surprised by how much this book improved our daughter's fine motor skills and control over a pen.

Additionally, since her French lagged her English, the French version of this book taught her the alphabet in French and well as all her numbers in this language. Had she not already known these things in English, I imagine it would have taught her these as well.

This book is definitely one of My First LeapPad's best.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for the slightly older My First Leappad kids, December 8, 2004

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Meghan (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LeapFrog My First LeapPad Educational Book: Tad's Silly Writing Fair (Toy)

My four year old son really enjoys this one (we have about a dozen My First Leappad books so far). A couple of the games really intrigued him; the "theme" is a carnival/fair, and he likes tracing the lines from the ball to the milk cans, for example. He's not as enthralled with the alphabet tracing part but I think he'll grow into that. This is definitely one of the most-requested books (he and his younger sister also really like Leap to the Moon and Disney Princesses).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter Loves It!, January 18, 2006

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Mariah's Mom "gemilagl" (Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LeapFrog My First LeapPad Educational Book: Tad's Silly Writing Fair (Toy)

I ordered this for my 3 1/2 year old daughter. She has been trying to write her name before, but some letters give her trouble. I gave her this "book" and she loves it! We own about 10 First Leap Pad books and she plays with this one more than any (she even put down the Disney Princess one to play with this). She likes practicing tracing the dotted lines on the letters. She doesn't do most of the other games, but she enjoys tracing the letters. The music makes it more exciting than the preschool handwriting books I had purchased for her. She won't spend two minutes with those. It does seem that her "free" handwriting is getting better. She just received the L-Max for Christmas (we haven't opened it yet)and the Letters on the Loose game which I read was good for writing. I'm sure that with both of these, she will have writing down pat very soon.