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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This book is a wonderful selection to read to toddlers. It grabs their attentiona and holds on to the very end.
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Summary: Our favorite book!
Review: "Skit skat skoodle doot, flip flop flee" has now become a part of our family vocabulary! My 3-year-old and 2-year-old sons love this book so much, that after checking it out constantly at the library, I'm buying it. My 2-year-old is hard to please when it comes to books--very few of them capture his attention. But this one he wants to read over and over. Also, it's a fun book for the parents to read (and if you have it, trust me, you'll read it 78 times a day) with its fun rhythm and rhyme, reminiscient of Dr. Seuss. You will LOVE this book, and your kids will too!
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Summary: If you have or spend time with children,BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I just got this book today and not only does my daughter love this book, I love it too. I have bought several alphabet books hoping to assist me with teaching my daughter her ABCs and she did not like any of those books. This our first day with this book and she has already added another letter to her vocabulary and she pointed it out. The story in this book is so cute, I recommend this book to anyone with children.
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Summary: love at first reading!
Review: At first when I viewed this book, without reading, I was not intrigued. BUT, at first reading, my son and I are in love with this one! Am ordering an extra copy for his daycare, for the other children to fall in love( they'll be asking their parents too, for this great book). This rhyming/sing-song story is great, funny to see both of us parents read this story differently--I'm the one who is more animated when I read it. I'm sure all kids will love it....great way for them to get introduced to the lower case alphabet! LOVE IT! LAURA AND JONAH
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Summary: My Kids Love Chika Chika Boom Boom
Review: My kids (ages 2, 3 and 4) LOVE this book. I bought the book with a cassette tape that my children absolutely wore out. The book (only a year old) is taped together and coming apart from the many readings. The cassette was wonderful; with several versions of "Chika Chika Boom Boom" being sung and read. MY favorites are the spoken word by Ray Charles and the group of children singing the story. A wonderful collection to my kids growing book rack.
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Summary: Precious!
Review: My daughter LOVES this book and can repeat every word. It is very rythmic and fun - get it today if your child shows any interest in her ABCs.
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Summary: Brilliant first book for baby!
Review: The cadence in this book and the rhythm mesmorized my son from about 3 months on. While he certainly did not understand what letters were, the illustrations are colorful and eyecatching for babies and he was clearly very interested. The story concerns the letters of the alphabet as they climb a coconut tree. The tree eventually bends at the weight of the letters. I have the boardbook version which is well worn. I have seen the cd version at my son's school but have never found it on the web. Now that my son is 4, his interest in the alphabet is real. This book is a true classic and probably belongs on the shelves of all youngsters. Highly highly recommended!
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Summary: Read to Your Child to Develop Bonding and Intellect!
Review: Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom was one of her picks. The book is designed to teach the alphabet, but has several other nice qualities. For some reason, children get really attached to the sound of hearing "chicka chicka boom boom" and love to repeat it. Not only did my daughter do that, but so did her friends. Have mastered that sound, they were one step along in memorizing the poem story of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Because the story contains the alphabet, memorizing that became part of the game. Then with so much memorized, they can "read" the story to you by repeating what they have memorized. Pretty soon, what they have memorized becomes identified with what they see. Voila! Reading progress begins. Very subtle and very effective is this method! The drawings are equally cleverly designed to help with recognition and memorization. The letters are printed in LARGE sizes and in different colors, surrounded by lots of white space to increase the differences in their appearances. They are also tilted and come alive so they become interesting rather than just abstract. "A told B, and B told C, 'I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.'" If only adult books were this well designed, learning would be fun and easy for almost everyone. Overcome your misconceptions that children cannot master complicated material, by helping your child learn with this wonderful resource! Then find other books with similar structures to continue the reading progress. Hop on Pop is a good selection for that purpose.
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Summary: My daughter's current favorite book.
Review: I bought this book on recommendation from a couple of parents in my daughter's daycare class. My two-year-old fell in love with this book from the first time she saw it, and now calls it her favorite book. She chants lines from the book as we're walking or playing, and "reads" along as we go through the book for the zillionth time. This book also introduces the lowercase letters -- a lot of Alphabet books for toddlers usually only focus on capital letters. While my daughter is a bit confused, she now knows that there are "Mommy" letters and "baby" letters. I wish, however, that I had bought the book with the audio tape, which is supposed to be pretty fun.
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Summary: Wonderful teaching tool!
Review: I have used this book in my classroom very often! My firstgrade limited English speaking students were able to learn thealphabet quickly through the rhythmic and joyful telling of this story! It is a fun, fast, jumproping kind of sing-song story! Great for alphabet letter recognition and auditory memory.
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