Chunky Safari Lion

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Summary: Lotte's Lion
Review: Lotte' daddy brought this little book home from a business trip to London. Ever since it has been her night-time pal in bed. She looks over page after page "talking" with the animals.

The book is marked as not suitable for children under 36 months because of small parts (the eyes are pasted on the cardboard face of the animal and could be picked off, I guess).

Lotte is 16 months old and giving me kisses as I write this review. I take it she approves of this book.

What I like about it is the repetitive formular ... the lion looks for the zebra and asks all the animals he finds on this "safari" if they have seen the zebra. The zebra is always hiding behind something and the child can help spot it. Since the question is always the same, children are able to relate to what they are supposed to do on each page.

The illustrations are cute and simple. The pictures are not overloaded in color and action. Yet there are those little things the child can point to and enjoy. Lotte is so proud when she can point to the zebra and help the lion.

For smaller children is is just as suitable as for older ones. There are four animals in the series: Lion, Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino.

I was going to order all four since they also make a great gift. Everyone who has small children and stopped by our house loved the book. One of the older children sadly had a fight over our Lion with Lotte and they tore it in two halves. A replacement is necessary and the reason for my visit at amazon.com :)

Enjoy the book and the smiling child that "reads" it.

Michael, Kristin and Lotte

Rating:
Summary: Lotte's Lion
Review: Lotte' daddy brought this little book home from a business trip to London. Ever since it has been her night-time pal in bed. She looks over page after page "talking" with the animals.

The book is marked as not suitable for children under 36 months because of small parts (the eyes are pasted on the cardboard face of the animal and could be picked off, I guess).

Lotte is 16 months old and giving me kisses as I write this review. I take it she approves of this book.

What I like about it is the repetitive formular ... the lion looks for the zebra and asks all the animals he finds on this "safari" if they have seen the zebra. The zebra is always hiding behind something and the child can help spot it. Since the question is always the same, children are able to relate to what they are supposed to do on each page.

The illustrations are cute and simple. The pictures are not overloaded in color and action. Yet there are those little things the child can point to and enjoy. Lotte is so proud when she can point to the zebra and help the lion.

For smaller children is is just as suitable as for older ones. There are four animals in the series: Lion, Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino.

I was going to order all four since they also make a great gift. Everyone who has small children and stopped by our house loved the book. One of the older children sadly had a fight over our Lion with Lotte and they tore it in two halves. A replacement is necessary and the reason for my visit at amazon.com :)

Enjoy the book and the smiling child that "reads" it.

Michael, Kristin and Lotte

Rating:
Summary: Double duty fun.
Review: The whole series of these books is great. There are four in the jungle group and four in the farm group. My three year old son loves animals so much we had to get all of them. He has played for hours with these books, first reading them, then playing with the animals, then bringing them to me to read etc. They are pretty durable and stand up to a lot of play and reading.

Rating:
Summary: Double duty fun.
Review: The whole series of these books is great. There are four in the jungle group and four in the farm group. My three year old son loves animals so much we had to get all of them. He has played for hours with these books, first reading them, then playing with the animals, then bringing them to me to read etc. They are pretty durable and stand up to a lot of play and reading.