Friends to Find (Dora the Explorer)

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Summary: Bigger, better coloring book
Review: I bought this for my daughter who loves Dora. It is larger than the typical coloring book and the pages are preferated so you can tear them out. Read the cover, "Coloring & Activity Place Mats". My son is now old enough to color Dora as he loves her as much if not more than my daughter. It's a great way to have the kids at the dinner table while Mommy and Daddy are still eating their dinner. I'm a big fan of our family eating dinner together, but with a husband who works late a 3 year old and 18 month old some times my wants to a family meal are not anywhere in sight. So, the kids are coloring Dora at the table while Mommy and Daddy eat. It's great! I love it, wish there were more coloring books like this one!!! Highly recommend!!!

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Summary: This is a coloring book!
Review: I purchased this for my two-year old Dora-fan daughter, thinking it was a book. Now I see that it is variously called a "puzzle book" and a "jigsaw puzzle". As far as I can tell, however, it is a *coloring book*. It as actually perfectly fine as coloring books go, with a variety of pen-and-pencil activities built into it ("Now we have to search the Squirrel Trees for our friends. Trace the path that will take us there"), but I really was not expecting it to be a coloring book, and so was disappointed when it arrived.

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Summary: Had to hide it for awhile to get a break from reading it!
Review: Our two-and-a-half-year-old son is a huge Dora fan. Though he still gets scared of Swiper, even in books, he LOVES this book! Yes, it's a coloring book. We knew that when we bought it, but we have still yet to touch crayon to paper. The story and simple activities, however, have been read SO many times that the adults (and kindergartner brother) in our household have tired of it... so we've just "hidden" the book from plain view for a while to give ourselves a rest. It's a very cute story, though. The goal is to find a different Dora friend in every section. We'll pull it out again for another dozen reads in a day or two! Ha. Our two-year-old would MOST HIGHLY recommend this at any rate.