Tie Your Shoes: Rocket Style/Bunny Ears [Board book]

IKids (Author), Linda Solovic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003 | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Tie Your Shoes

Flip it over! 2 Books in 1 - Learn Rocket Style on one side and Bunny Ears on the other - 2 foil-stamped shoe-tying boards with clear step-by-step photographic instructions - 2 board games reinforce early learning concepts, including left/right - Color-coded laces and holes - Bound at top providing easy access for lefties and righties

Product Details

• Board book: 8 pages
• Publisher: Innovative Kids; 1ST edition (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584762071
• ISBN-13: 978-1584762072
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #592,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick to Learn, October 20, 2003

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Monica "monicaintexas" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tie Your Shoes: Rocket Style/Bunny Ears (Board book)

This book is GREAT! My 5 year old daughters learned how to tie with the bunny ears method in about an hour. I worked with them and they just sat down and practiced. The laces being are two different colors so it really makes it easy to use. It is a board book so very durable and has detailed directions with pictures to explain how each way to tie works. I highly recommend this book.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cute book. Too bad they screwed up the directions., June 27, 2005

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Slatternly Jones "Authority on boys and toys" (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
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The key error made in this book is that the starting knot is shown as if children were going to tie their laces with them extending upward (hanging up?) toward their ankles. This is not the way most people tie their shoes.

Worse, this orientation changes during the course of the directions. The meaning of the word "over" shifts from the time you've tied your starting knot to the time you've tied your bow. This can be confusing for children who are literal and precise, and for adults who are trying to teach kids to tie square knots instead of slip knots.

When you tie your starting knot this way, holding your laces up toward your chin, then the lace that is "over" in the book's vocabulary is actually the one further away from you. This "over" lace will become "under" when the knot is tied on a slanted shoe and the laces naturally extend downward toward the toe. Then, when the instructions come for tying the bunny ears knot, the book changes the word's meaning, and "over" becomes the one that is closest to you as the loops stick straight up in the air or are held in a "downhill" toward the toe position.

I know this is confusing, but try it, and you'll see that the word "over" changes meaning, depending on whether you're crossing your x down toward the toes or up toward the ankles.

On the plus side, the games are cute and the overall book is cute, and the whole thing will work, as long as you and your child copy the illustrations exactly and understand that the meaning of "over" for the starter knot depends on holding the laces upward toward the wearer's chin.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny, August 7, 2005

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TheLastCoyote (WA) - See all my reviews
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I agree that the instructions are a bit off however, my daughter and I sat down with the book and within a half an hour she was tying her own shoes! The different colored laces are a great help and I love the way they show two different ways to tie your shoes so the kids can pick the one that's easier for them.