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Summary: best book for baby!
Review: "what makes a rainbow?" A GREAT BOOK!
Building a reading library for a newborn can be a tedious, costly process. I started buying books for my new granddaughter in April. Lots of books, not too many good ones. Fortunately, I found this book. The bright colors, hardboard construction and simple, straightforward style make keeping my grandbaby interested a breeze. She settles right down when I open the pages and let her feel the ribbons - with each page another colored ribbon appears -- teaching her about cause and effect, color and texture. This is one of her favorite books and I only wish there were more books like it.
Wanting to read to your child is great, keeping them interested can be a challenge. For babies, books with pages that don't rip, pop-ups that don't tear and bright colors to excite them helps them stay focused.
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Summary: best book for baby!
Review: "what makes a rainbow?" A GREAT BOOK!
Building a reading library for a newborn can be a tedious, costly process. I started buying books for my new granddaughter in April. Lots of books, not too many good ones. Fortunately, I found this book. The bright colors, hardboard construction and simple, straightforward style make keeping my grandbaby interested a breeze. She settles right down when I open the pages and let her feel the ribbons - with each page another colored ribbon appears -- teaching her about cause and effect, color and texture. This is one of her favorite books and I only wish there were more books like it.
Wanting to read to your child is great, keeping them interested can be a challenge. For babies, books with pages that don't rip, pop-ups that don't tear and bright colors to excite them helps them stay focused.
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Summary: Looking for something a little different?
Review: I just picked this book up for my 2-1/2 year old daughter. She was so intrigued by the ribbons, just kept turning the pages, then flipping them back. As each page is turned, another color ribbon appears. The last page has a large pop-up rainbow (paper, not ribbons). The story is simple. Baby bunny goes to ask each of his friends "What makes a rainbow?" Each of his friends answers based on their own personal color (red ladybug, orange fox, yellow chick, green grasshopper, blue bluebird & purple butterfly). Baby bunny learns that rainbows are made up of rain, colors and sunshine. The text is easy, my daughter was repeating it after several readings and enjoys hearing me re-tell the story even without the book - as she calls out each color. The book seems pretty sturdy and I haven't had any problems with the ribbons, although my daughter has yet to pull on them very hard.
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Summary: Terrific Gift
Review: I recently purchased three copies of WHAT MAKES A RAINBOW? for my friends' kids. What an excellent book! With each turn of the page a new ribbon appears of a different color to form a rainbow at the end of the book. The text is great and the whole concept is amazing! It's so different and fun that each child remembers that I gave them the book and tells me about it. One friend even phoned to tell me her son took the book to show and tell in his preschool. This book is the perfect gift for birthdays or holidays. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Ingredients to a Rainbow
Review: I think everyone has had a chance to go outside after it rains and notice a bright rainbow hight up in the sky. I know I have, and the first thing I always notice is how many colors their are in it. This book really brought that out with its pictures. It showed all the ingredients and gave all the colors that really make up a rainbow. They not only gave examples of animals for the colors, but they used a very creative way of showing the reader examples. Since it was a pop-up book, the things that would pop up would be ribbons that represented the color in which the book was speaking of. I'm pretty sure that young readers that read this book would find this book not to be a very big bore. They would be attracted by the many varieties of colors in the pictures. I also noticed that this book not only teaches younger children colors, but it can also teach them some different animals. But all together in the end, it showed the ingredients of a magnificent looking rainbow. All it needs is rain, colors(red,orange,yellow,green,blue,and purple), and sunshine. Now that's what makes a rainbow.
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Summary: Great for preschoolers
Review: I'm a speech-language pathologist in the public schools and my preschoolers LOVE this book. We've used it as part of our unit on colors. The kids also learn animals and counting as we make our own books, coloring the animals and rainbow, and adding cotton balls for clouds. The language is simple and repetitive...especially good for second language learners. The children love taking turns turning the pages and touching the ribbons. And no matter how many times we read it, they always get a big kick out of the "big finale"--the pop-out rainbow. Even my first and second graders are engaged by this book.
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Summary: What Makes a Rainbow?
Review: Love the bright colors! My three-year-old nephew wanted to turn the pages to see the rainbow over and over. In fact, the concept is so original I had to run through it myself a few times before even showing it to him.
There are many board books on the market, but this one is different and just plain fun. A truly happy book, and sturdy. It will get a lot wear. I would like to see others in a series by the same authors. Let's hope we'll see more by these people.
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Summary: Great for a toddler
Review: My 2 1/2 year old daughter loves this book!
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Summary: An excellent book for even the youngest of babies!
Review: My daughter (8 months) has really enjoyed our reading this book to her. The "magic ribbon" part is pretty cool - with each turn of the board-book-type page, another colored ribbon is drawn across the pages. It starts with a red ribbon, and goes through each of the colors until there is a rainbow of ribbons. The last page is a cardboard popup of a rainbow and 1/2 sun. The story: a little rabbit asks his/her friends what makes a rainbow. The ladybug says red, the fox says orange, etc. So, it's a fun way to talk about colors and some animals as well. We're looking forward continuing to read this to our girl as she gets older.
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Summary: More to it than colors
Review: My daughter likes this book, though I change the words when I read it to her. I give the female characters a title (Ms.) to show the respect that the male characters get (they're all referred to as Mr.). I also change the end to make it true; water droplets and sunshine make a rainbow, not colors. The ribbons are a cute idea, but little hands are very tempted to pull them. I prefer other books to teach children colors.
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