Customer Reviews

Maisy at the Farm

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This book has been fantastic, and has introduced our daughter to all the farm animals in such a way that they've really become her friends - there are eggs under the laying hen, and then a chick appears too, there is a bird sweeping out from the corn as the tractor chugs by; the geese need water from the yellow watering can, and a very young child can add to the story by activating the animals at different points - magic. We started our daughter on this at 3 months, as a reading book, and now, 13 months later, the second copy is a wreck - she can do each step again, and again, and again.......a worthwhile buy anyday, and a marvellous present (needless to say, for adults too!)

This is my two-year old's favorite Maisy book. Again, the colors are bold and the drawings simple, as of typical Lucy Cousin. This is a great book for toddlers to learn the names of various farm animals and their youngs. Like all flap and pull-tab books, it is not too sturdy. So this book is best saved for parent and child reading together.

My 14-month-old has just learned how to express a preference for some books over others, and this book is the big winner. He loves it more and more as he figures out how to pull all the tabs.

My eighteen month old son loves this book! He goes to bed with it at night and wants to read it more than any other book. He can maneuver the flaps and pull- tabs without ripping them to shreds (like some others he's managed to destroy.) We highly recommend this one!

This is one of my two year old's favorite books! He returns to it again and again (along with most other Lucy Cousins books!). He absolutely loves the brightly colored pictures combined with the pull-tabs. If you have a toddler, this is a sure winner!

While my almost 2 year old son loves this book (as he loves all maisy books/videos), I have had to put it away because in his desire to pull the tabs and make things move, he is constantly ripping the pages or the moveable parts. The parts are just made of regular paper, not more sturdy card stock as you find in other pop-up/pull tab books. A fine book if you have a gentle reader, but if you have one like mine, who loves his books to pieces (literally), this is not a good choice.

My granddaughter Lily loves the Maisie books, especially the lift the flap ones. She started enjoying them at about 8 months, and now at 12 months is quite good at anticipating, making the correct animal sounds, and lifiting the flaps. The pull tabs do not do so well as it is easy, even for an adult, to get stuck or pull too hard. Opening some of the doors requires great small motor skill, but the flaps are strong enough to survive. Lily loves Maisie. Books with lots of pull tabs should not say they are lift the flap.