My First Brain Quest: 400 Questions to Build Your Toddler's Word Skill, Third Edition (Brain Quest) [Cards]

Chris Welles Feder (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

Join a little monkey named Max on his fun-filled days and watch your child's vocabulary blossom! Help Max get dressed. Visit the zoo. Have fun at the circus. Enjoy a picnic in the county. Plus celebrate holidays, mark the changing of the seasons, and learn all about animals. It's a game of 400 questions in picture form that will help your child develop essential learning skills and get a smart start.

Vetted by a panel of America’s highest award-winning teachers, and embraced by kids and parents because it flat-out works, Brain Quest opens a world of information and education with its fast-paced question-and-answer format, bright full-color illustrations, and lively attitude

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Smarter. Fresher. Better.

And now with new content, and new packaging.

Announcing the relaunch of Brain Quest, America’s #1 educational bestseller with over 23.7 million copies in print. Featuring a complete updating of the content and an eye-catching, brainy-retro new look, this is a dazzling makeover, inside and out.

For kids, it’s fun unplugged. For parents, it’s the easiest, most trusted way to know if their children are keeping pace. Assisting in the relaunch is an advisory panel of ten of America’s top educators, each of them winners of Teacher of the Year or Milken National Educator Awards. The result: completely revised questions and answers, with up to 20%new material, to bring each deck up to the standards of today’s curricula. The content is the same that kids will find on standardized tests, handled in such a way that it promotes mental flexibility.

From the Back Cover

It's O.K To Be Smart!

Join a little monkey named Max on his fun-filled day and watch your child's vocabulary blossom! Visit the zoo. Have fun at the circus. Celebrate holidays and learn all about animals. It's a game of questions in picture form that will help your child develop essential learning skills.

CURRICULUM-BASED!
TEACHER APPROVED BY THE BRAIN QUEST PANEL OF AWARD WINNING EDUCATORS.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Cards: 148 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 3rd edition (April 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761137734
• ISBN-13: 978-0761137733
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 3.6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #24 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > School & Education
  • #44 in Books > Children's Books > Sports & Games > Games

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flash cards reinvented, May 1, 2008

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fyres - See all my reviews

This review is from: My First Brain Quest: 400 Questions to Build Your Toddler's Word Skill, Third Edition (Brain Quest) (Cards)

The premise of the game is, it asks questions regarding the pictures on the cards and the child tries to answer them according to the illustrations. (The answers are provided as a cheat guide for parents.) One of the great things about it is that it encourages parent/child interaction. All of the cards are printed front and back and typically a card has 3 scenes in it for the kid to name the scene, the action the character Max the Monkey is doing, and objects in the scene. So things like they'll show Max the Monkey putting socks on and it asks, "what is Max doing?" You can also have the child name the colors.

I do agree with another reviewer in that the rivet that binds it is too tight. It'd easily get torn or destroyed by your average 2 year old trying to figure it out. I would love to see a thicker, board book type version of this so it's sturdier for toddlers. I would pay extra for that to have it last longer.

I wouldn't wait till 2 yrs old to get this for a child though. I only learned about it when my child was 2.5 yrs old and most of it is already too easy for her. I would think a 1.5 yr old would be a good age to start with this one.

I do absolutely LOVE the fact that it is bound together and there's no more 52 card pick up with flash cards! I cannot even begin to express how thrilled I am about that alone! It's a perfect portable size to keep in the car, or bag to take anywhere. I wish I discovered this a long time ago, it would've been perfect for those lengthy waits in the doctor's waiting rooms. I also really love that it's curriculum based so it actually pertains to what my child learns in preschool so she can relate to it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea but not our kind of thing, I guess..., November 3, 2009

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This review is from: My First Brain Quest: 400 Questions to Build Your Toddler's Word Skill, Third Edition (Brain Quest) (Cards)

My 2-year old son is really into pointing out the names of things in books and in real life, so I figured this product would be a lot of fun for him to reinforce the vocabulary and concepts he is picking up every day. The drawings are decent, but not all that realistic in some areas - photographs of real objects are much more interesting to him right now. Overall, this product as fun for my son as I expected it to be - and I am not a mom who is into the flashcard concept, so I am certainly not going to try to make him go through these if he isn't having a good time with it. We'll be sticking with books and real life experiences to reinforce this type of learning.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great as Speech Therapy Supplement, March 13, 2009

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lovemybulldog (Snoqualmie, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My First Brain Quest: 400 Questions to Build Your Toddler's Word Skill, Third Edition (Brain Quest) (Cards)

My almost 3 year old son loves these cards and asks daily to "do Max cards". He has played with them without getting bored for almost a year now.

He is in weekly speech therapy for some delays due to unilateral hearing loss and these cards are a great supplement to the play sessions with his therapist. They prompt him to use question words, verbs, and understanding subjects like seasons, household tasks, and noun categories. His therapist has been really impressed with how he focuses on the details of the cards and concentrates on the question being asked.

He turns three at the end of the month and I am in the process of ordering the 3's cards, and can't wait for them to arrive.

The only thing confusing (to me, not my son yet) is that Max, his sister and his parents are all monkeys but the baby is a human baby. Not a big deal (we're a multi-cultural family anyway)but I thought it was interesting.

Definitely get these cards without hesitation. They are well worth the money.