Customer Reviews

This is the House That Jack Built (Classic Books)

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My one-year-old son adores this book and brings it to me several times a day to read it to him. It's text-heavy with tons of repetition, so we skip every few verses. He giggles at the rhythm of the text and sometimes even dances side to side. The illustrations are very colorful, consistent with the author's other books and those in this series. I highly recommend!

The illustrator adds a special delight to this old cumulative tale.
In addition to the visual and auditory treat, tales such as this are a great boost to language skills.

I read this book as a child, and now am reading this book to my nieces and nephew. What a joy it is to read such good books to young children. This is a must for anyone with youngsters. Buy it! You will not regret it.

Until recently, I hadn't thought much about cumulative tales helping with memory but they do. I recommend not skipping a word as you go back over the previous steps. Children (and I) love the art work also in this edition.

I also recommend these cumulative tales and songs.
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,
The Buggy That Boogied Away, and
She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain.

This was one of my favorite stories as a child. Of course, my version wasn't a board book, it was an actual book. Each repetition of the poem had its own page building up and up to a final page with the entire poem.

The board book doesn't follow this format. Too much on each page, too much happening. I don't enjoy the format at all.

I like the die cut holes highlighting the particular part of the book being read about.
As always the story is very entertaining.

There is a lot going on in this book. Perhaps, too busy as you near the end. However, it helps with memory and the pictures are interesting for my 3-year-old grand-daughter.

Our son celebrated his first birthday and we decided, since his name is Jackson, to get him a different version of The House that Jack Built, every year. This is our first one. It is fun and even comes with a cd inside! Just watch out, the cd flies out if you are not careful!