The Usborne Big Book Of Picture Puzzles (Great Searches New Format) Read Free Books and Download eBooks
Book by Bingham, Jane, Heywood, Rosie, Khanduri, Kamini
Series: Great Searches New Format
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Usborne Pub Ltd; Act edition (December 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0794511651
ISBN-13: 978-0794511654
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,321,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #45 in Books > Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Activity Books > Hidden Picture
Age Range: 8 and up
Grade Level: 3 and up
This is a must have for a long road trip. The kids enjoy seeing who can find the pictures first. and, it is not just a seek and find book with a picture and you find it. Each item you have to find has a description so the children are actually learning also. The book is bigger than your average size book. I'll admit to playing with the book by myself a time or two. Def. worth the money.
First, I have learned to expect a lot from Usborne books. This one is no exception. It is interesting if you are 4 years old or 99. Art work is great & puzzles are challenging enough to hold the interest of children of all ages. This is a very well made book, I have bought 2, one in good and one very good condition on and both looked brand new. Even including shipping these were a fraction of the new price and will be used by my grand children for years. It is the kind of book that makes a trip or a rainy day go by quickly. The book shows several different cultures from different periods in history as well as prehistory.. The last section is devoted to fish, dinosaurs, & mammals from the fossil record. Again the artwork is great and placement of plants and animals seem correct in their time periods.The reason I give it 4 stars and not 5 is the very strong bias towards Anglo/European/Classical cultures. There is not a fair mix of African, Asian, South Asian, & Native North and South American cultures in this book. That said it is still a good book. I hope Usborne will expand it to include a more complete world view.
We bought this book for our bright, inquisitive 7 year old last Christmas. Now it's June, and I think she's done at least one picture puzzle almost every night since then. She loves the many historical puzzles. Her 5 year old sister loves the dinosaur puzzles. In my elder daughter's words, "It's got a lot of interesting information and it's really amusing. Also it's good for long car trips because kids can entertain themselves quietly." As a parent, I couldn't agree more! What a fun introduction to different historical(and prehistorical) periods, different cultures, and some geography. I find it completely appropriate and utterly inoffensive. I'd be delighted to give this to any curious 4 to 9 year old.
We look through this together and compete on who can find things first. To me, the bathhouse picture on p 16 and 17 was not offensive in the least. I like that he learns a little bit of history this way by trying to find the items in the historical scenes. I'd like to find even more books like this.Edit 7/29/2010: he's continued to love this book and want to search for things in it EVERY NIGHT for months now. Definitely worth the purchase.
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