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Simms Taback's Big Book of Words

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This book is so incredible. I can't believe the one other review of this book is +negative because my daughter is not even two and has memorized every single picture in this book. She started out before she was even a year old recognizing things like a ball and reciting the word with the picture and now she sits down and "reads" the pages and makes a different action or movement to coincide with each picture. For instance, she pretends to eat popcorn off of the popcorn page. I recommend this book to EVERYONE who wants their child to advance with motor skills and cognitive learning. She loves to read books in general and I attribute it to reading this book and similar ones for her in the very beginning. As far as manipulating the pages goes, my daughter has never had a problem doing so and she has had this book since before she was a year old. I can't imagine why it would be difficult.

While I can certainly appreciate the sketches and the broad choice of words the author chose to include in this book, I don't think it is at all appropriate for toddlers who are just learning to speak. First of all, my child has a much easier time manipulating board book pages than he does these thin, glossy ones. Second of all, the renderings take some slight artistic license...making it very difficult for my child to recognize the objects and associate them with things in the "real world." In my opinion, this book is better suited for the higher end of toddlers and preschoolers only...and young toddlers should stick to books that use actual photographs.