Interactive Books

The Magic Handbook is a bit short on how to present magic, but the effects presented are very good. Many principles used by professional magicians are provided here, and all can be made fairly simply with easy to find materials. Recommended.

This book is very inspiring, and has helped me do a lot of magic tricks. I use a lot of it's tricks when I preform, and no one has ever figured them out. It is an excellent book and I think that all kids who want to be magicians will love it. It is also good for parents who want to impress their kids, but don't know how to. All in all, I think this is an A+ book

My new reader (first grade) can't get enough of this book. We borrowed a copy from the library and had to buy it to keep. Each interactive page entices the reader to keep going and help solve the mystery. My child reads this book to anyone who will listen. Our favorite page has a mirror on it to help decode the backwards message from one of the pull-out pages. We stumbled onto this book on the library shelf and I was surprised to see it in such good condition with all the pull-out pieces inside. This is a definite "keeper" book meant to be owned and read over and over and over.

Mailbox Mice Mystery isn't really suitable for library lending but parents seeking a very special gift for a young reader will relish this caper which provides envelopes with clues for solving the mystery of the missing cheese. When all the cheese in Little Falls disappears, it's up to Watson Mouse to solve the mystery!

This book is a great, and I can't believe it's gone out of print. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a copy second-hand. It truly does allow kids to create costumes from stuff that is just lying around the house. Grocery sack cowboy (or girl) vests...you bet. Bath towel genies...check. Trash bag caped vampires...yep. (The only costume that's a bit outdated is the cheerleader one that used tractor-feed printer paper ends for pom-poms.) My personal favorite costumes were the Muscle Man, the Island Dancer, and The Equestrienne.

A must for kids who like to play dress up and for parents who don't want to spend a fortune on dress-up or Halloween costumes for their kids.

What a great book! I have given it to countless children as a gift and it has always been received with rave reviews! This book truly stimulates imagination and fun for both children and parents.

This cut-out was really fun to make. I do alot of the Usbourne cut-out models and this one is one of my favorite! The end result is something really impressive and is worthy of being put on a shelf for display. Great for teaching especially for homeschoolers! Difficulty level is about a 6.

Sitting high up on the highest shelf of the tallest bookcase in my family room is an almost real looking, miniature Egyptian sarcophagus. Unbelievably, it's made of paper, glued together by my kids from a little Usborne cutout kit called "Make this Model Egyptian Mummy." I was more than a little skeptical when I ordered it. Boy, was I surprised...

First off, for them (and their mom) this was a highlight of our study of Ancient Egypt.

Second, they (and I) learned a lot about how these things actually looked.

Third, they built it without any adult supervision.

Fourth, they actually got along while doing it.

This is the way homeschool should be.
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This is a great abc book for learning to write letters. Each letter is indented, so that a child can trace it with his or her finger. It also shows an item that starts with that letter. My only complaint is that it is for learning to write lowercase letters. I wish that there was also an uppercase version. But overall, very neat book!

I'm a teacher, and this gives kids a tactile experience about lower case letters. Not only does my baby enjoy touching the book while I read it to him, but I cannot resist feeling the letters myself!

My daughter was expected to start writing in lower case letters from the get-go in kindergarten, so this is a fun way to introduce them. There are plenty of puzzles, toys and games that already teach upper case letters, so I was excited to find something fun with lower case letters. This is a great find!

Brightly colored illustrations by Chris Saunderson pique the child's imagination in this familiar Old Testament story, "March around the walls with Joshua." The easy to follow suggestions for action and movement which accompany the text, written by Stephanie Jeffs, encourage an interactive learning experience. Whether stomping up and down in an imaginary walk around the walls, blowing a pretend trumpet through clenched fists or shouting out loud with Joshua, the child will long remember their march around the walls with Joshua.

This is an excellent teaching resource for use at home or in the classroom. It should be in the preschool church classrom, in Christian school libraries, and in every home with preschool children.

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake, a Christian Education Consultant.

"Shout - rumble - bang - crash - shout ..." - your preS-Gr 1 boys will especially like this title in New Day's Action Rhyme Book series! The sweet illustrations will grab the more visual listeners. This series would be a great basis for religious education after-school or evening program for the little ones.

An intern brought in a copy of this book into the office and before I knew it, all the designers were demanding they got a copy too!

It's a great book that deals with the stuff that's often forgotten when building a site - like explaining the benefits of good planning from the outset and then getting the thing ranked highly on search engines!

Got the book yesterday and didn't put it down till I read the whole thing from cover to cover! This is great book for anyone wanting to learn the best way to plan, prepare and promote a website and the author's succinct and witty style doesn't make it feel like a class lecture! The in-depth guides about search engines and information architecture means I've learnt how to get my next site right from the start and there's some great inspirational illustrations in there too.

Very colorful, and wonderfully written. This book is about a little boy Max and his pig. As you turn each page it takes you through all of the steps in growing a plant from the seed to the final flower. Whats better is that each page has some type of activity like moving tabs, pop up pictures or lift the flap. Overall with few lines to a page it is a wonderful story for all youngsters, and its scientific!

Our Children's Librarian used this book for my daughter's ToddlerTime class the day that we planted sunflower seeds, and all the children LOVED "Max Loves Sunflowers." The bright colors, simple line-drawings and movement on every page captured the interest of all the two-year-olds in the class. I highly recommend this book for youngsters; kids can watch the sunflower "grow" from seed to seedling to a huge plant. Very entertaining, colorful, and fun!

I bought Max'x Money for my 3 1/2 year old granddaughter and it is her most favorite book. When the book arrived in the mail, I had to read it to her 5 times because she enjoyed the book so much and then she pretended to read it herself. She sleeps with the book and carries it with her. The book is fun, interactive,colorful and magic. She has lots of books and this book had become an instant favorite she can't put down. I highly recommend this book.

I bought this book for my twin niece and nephew for Christmas. They had it worn out in a month! The concept of the book is to show young children how money "travels". An example from the book shows money leaving the purse and going into the gumball machine. The book actually comes with hard cardboard "money" that can be inserted into slots on one page and retreived on the next. My nephew now tries to put money in everything! They are 2 1/2 years old and I would say this is a very appropriate book for this age level and up. I highly recommend it!

Simple, precise and organized are the perfect adjectives for this book. It's amazing how the book guide you in an easy way through it chapters.
Im an Industrial Designer and I recomend this book and this software for all people envolved in product design.

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