 "My 2 year old loves this puzzle!" | 2008-06-11 |
| - Reviewed By nitanamiyun |
| My 2 year old loves this puzzle. The puzzle is big, but she loves to see the train grow across the room. It's very durable, and she has learned both animals and her letters and can do the puzzle now by herself at 2.5. |
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 "Sturdy, Fun ABC Puzzle" | 2008-06-04 |
| - Reviewed By dawn3570 |
| This is a great puzzle for many reasons. First for parents this is a sturdy puzzle. We are in a puzzle phase right now and this puzzle is not showing any signs of wear. Second, the pictures are great. Some of the ABC animals are not ones that you normally find in the ABC books. Plus it is a train and with a boy, trains are always great. |
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| "Excellent for letter recognition (the ABC song is not just a song)" | 2008-03-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1GUX6R8DV3ZLY |
This puzzle is a great beginning puzzle for a young pre-schooler. We bought this puzzle for our 3 year old. It is challenging for her as well as entertaining. I rated this puzzle 5 stars, but if 4.75 stars were an option, that would be a more accurate rating. It is not flawless - the main problem is that Melissa and Doug illustrated "X" with a fox, which obviously does not start with X. Admittedly, there aren't many animals that start with X. In fact, I can only think of xenops, and this is thanks to an ABC book my daughter had when she was younger. Further, every piece except for U is an animal - U is illustrated with an umbrella. This seems inconsistent. Unicorn would have been a better option.
Aside from these relatively minor flaws, this puzzle is fantastic. There are 28 pieces. Two pieces form the locomotive and the other 26 pieces correspond to a train car illustrated with a letter in upper and lower case and an animal (except for the aforementioned umbrella) that starts with that letter (except for the fox for x). The puzzle is 10 feet long, so you need a big space to put it together. My daughter loves how long it is. And I love that it is one long puzzle because this forces my daughter to think about the alphabet song, identify the letter that comes next, search for and find the letter she identified and then fit that letter into the puzzle. Before she got this puzzle, I *thought* she knew her letters and the alphabet. However, I realized that she didn't really think about each letter she sang in the song as corresponding to a with a letter in the written form. Similarly, while she could identify a letter as written when we showed it to her, she found it challenging to think about alphabetical order and hunt for the correct letter - she had to picture the letter in her mind in order to locate the letter. Thus, this puzzle was highly educational for her. When we first got the puzzle, each time we sat with her and sang the ABC song with her as we pointed to the letters. When we got to the last letter she had fitted into the puzzle, we would pause and ask what comes next. Once she identified that letter, she would search to it and we'd repeat our previous procedure, singing the alphabet song and identifying the next letter.
The pieces are very good quality and I can tell that they will last a long time. They fit well together but are not too loose. The peices are nice, chunky and thick. As I mentioned above, the puzzle is very long, so my daughter must sit on the floor and sift through the pieces to find the correct letter. This makes assembly of this puzzle particularly fun and interactive. |
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 "Too Long" | 2008-01-24 |
| - Reviewed By szaffina |
| I purchased this thinking it was the other alphabet floor puzzle with the good review, but this one is ten feet long and connects one to one. I purchased it to help my toddler learn the alphabet, but it just takes up too much floor space and it the pictures are not very fun so the alphabet part of it seems to not to come across well enough. Quality is good if your looking for this type of puzzle. |
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| "Beware-X is not for fox!" | 2008-01-20 |
| - Reviewed By syl5360 |
| We recieved this as a present and my son was very excited to put it together. The pictures are nice and the big size makes it fun. As with any alphabet activities, we enjoyed practicing our letters by saying, "C is for Cow," etc. But when we got to X we were shocked to see they put a fox. The age range for the puzzle will expect the traditional "X is for..." set up and not be looking for the letter in the final position. They did U is for umbrella so why they felt they had to do fox for x is unclear. We love most Melissa & Doug items, but fell that this one missed on this. We have to keep correcting our little one that X is not for fox! |
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| "Alphabet Puzzle" | 2007-12-24 |
| - Reviewed By yorkshiregal |
| A bit young for my 4 yo who had it done within 15 minutes, but a very good product. |
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| "Well made, fun, educational!" | 2007-10-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A190NEVRC9XPMX |
| This is such a great puzzle for a preschooler! First, it is VERY well made and durable. Cheaper puzzles have the tendency to wear out and bend easily. Next, it's easy enough for a preschooler to do independently, but fun for parents to help too :) I love the animal illustrations -- very vivid colors and detailed. This toy gets an A+ from this picky mom! |
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| "Great teaching toy!" | 2007-06-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: AY7FWJ2X3ATH9 |
| Once again, I bought this for a gift, but my Sister-in-law has only good to say about it. She says that it is very durable, and easy to clean if spots appear (kids will do that ya know!) Her 3 year old has learned the alphabet already because of this puzzle! The kids really like being able to get something out to play with on the floor. |
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| "Great learning train." | 2007-01-14 |
| - Reviewed By musicfan31 |
| Helped my son learn the alphabet in a fun way and the quality is good. |
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| "Excellent!!!" | 2006-12-02 |
| - Reviewed By reneefk |
| My 4 year old still likes to put this puzzle together even though he has been able to do it for awhile now. We have had it several years and it is still in excellent shape. Fun, educational and very well made. |
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