Interactive Books

My 20 month old loves loves loves the book. She was introduced to it in day care. At home she just sits on the floor and plays and sings with the song. The construction is not good for little hands, so beware that if you want the book to last a couple of years, you may need to supervise your child. I just let mine go at it, so we've had to call in the emrgency repair squad a few times, but it is a fun book and even with taped pages, it is enjoyed every time.

This book has it all for the classic song. The graphics are dynamic and fun, the pop-up aspects are creative (moving wipers for the rain), and the two buttons (one for the song, the other for the horn) are cute. I orginally bought it for myself but my kids found it and have thoroughly enjoyed it to the point I have to buy a new one for me!

We purchased this book for our 16-month old without realizing it was intended for ages 3-5, but are very glad we did. This has become our daughter's favorite book. She loves the 2-page layout pictures and the colors used throughout the book. The story is great and she takes her time flipping from page to page.

When the Moon Smiled, written and illustrated by Petr Horacek, tells the story of the moon lighting the stars one by one in the night sky until everything is right with the world. The story is well-written, with a warm, reassuring quality reminiscent of classic folktales.


Die-cut stars appear as they are lit by the moon for all the farm animals that haven't yet settled down for the night. Starting at one and ending with 10, another star is added with every turn of the page, encouraging young readers to count along as they go. The number of animals depicted in each colorful illustration reflects the number of stars presented on the same page, reinforcing the numerical concept.


Congratulations to Petr Horacek for this excellent book. Although When the Moon Smiled is subtitled "A Bedtime Counting Book," preschoolers will love reading this book at any time of day. I highly recommend it.

Another one of our daughter's favorites. The illustrations are just wonderful and she practically reads the book herself now. All of John Butler's books are great for teaching animal identification and sounds.

My son and I love this book. The pictures are so cute and he loves for me to make the animal noises. He is nine months old and he sits and listens to this book sometimes two or three times in a row. It's short and sweet! Also check out If You See a Kitten, also by John Butler.

My daughter received this book as a gift when she was 2 1/2. She loves to do the puzzles and now knows all of her shapes, including trapezoid and hexagon. Very educational and fun.

We bought this for our 2.5 year old daughter and she loves it! It's great for finding patterns, learning shapes, sorting, matching edges, symmetry...there's a lot going on in this activity book. The pieces are solid and bright, and it's nice to have a storage container built right into the spine of the book. As a (former) math teacher, I'm thrilled to have this for my toddler!

this book is great for young reader...holds up super...

This is a great book for young kids!!! My daughter is absolutely captivated by the rhyme of each page only to be followed by her mesmerizing stare at the pull out tabs of each animal. This book uses a four line rhyme to ask children which animal they are describing and then you pull the tab to reveal...WHO LIVES HERE?. Monkeys have bananas, giraffes eat from trees, alligators have sharp pointy teeth, elephants have long noses, and the king of the jungle, the lion, roars! This book is a must have for any parent who loves to see their children enjoy a book!!!

This book is good

Something not highlighted in any of the comments I've seen on this book is that it contains a .res to .rc conversion utility which I think alone is worth the price of the book.

Joan's book is a must-read and a re-read for all direct marketing creatives. She breaks down the process so it's easy (and fun) to follow. Joan is a long-time solid creative strategist whose techniques work on traditional direct mediums and new electronic ones -- the rules never change...we just get more to deploy.

Joan Throckmorton's book is a true classic for all creators of direct response advertising. It's filled with examples of proven revenue-generators from print through electronic media. If you write, design, or manage ANY marketing effort today, you should read this book.

This is must reading for anyone in e-commerce marketing. The insight that can be gained from this book is amazing.

If you're designing voice user interfaces, you should buy this book.

The basic premise of the book is that when a computer has a voice--and it doesn't matter whether the voice is a recorded human or synthesized--people are going to subconsciously interact with the computer as if it is human (bringing their biases about gender, ethnicity, and personality).

I bought this book thinking I would skim it for ideas before writing a proposal. The proposal was focused on improving human-computer interaction for a communications device that uses voice (speech recognition) as the input and the output.

Well, I skimmed the first couple of chapters and realized that I really should read them more closely. I learned a couple of great nuggets on voice gender that influenced what I would include in the proposal.

Then I skimmed the next couple of chapters on personality of voices, realized I should read those more closely, learned a few more nuggets that I knew were going into the proposal.

At that point, I realized I needed to read the whole book closely and fast. Luckily, that was not a problem. The book is an easy read. Every chapter talks about an important design issue for voice user interfaces, describes the decisions that a designer could make, then outlines the research that was done, explains what was learned from the research, and discusses the implications of that research for how you should design your interface.

In short, this book completely changed the proposal, and I think we have a much better chance of winning the business. Furthermore, I have already identified about 5 major things we can do to improve our exsisting products that I did not know about before reading this book.

I am 59 and have about 25 of these Dover Coloring books and really like all but 2 of them. (it is just a matter of what you like, though). When you buy these from Amazon, you get one free if you buy 3. I took the suggestion of several reviewers and bought a good set of colored pencils. I got regular and fine line. My daughter (also an adult) wanted to color some, too. I came up with the idea to copy them on my printer for her. Then I decided to copy all of them when I want to color. This way we can use the pictures over and over. It is nice to use a heavier printer paper. Be careful, we find it to be a very addicting past time!

My therapist recommended coloring very complex pics with colored pencils as a means to reduce stress. These are wonderful pics to do that with. I highly recommend them.

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I read quotes almost daily, and can't get over the way I find myself learning new ways and thoughts. Very inspiring. A must read.