Rating: 4 stars
We didn't leave Kiefer out of the library book-fest (this time). He, too, got a zoo book. This one, by the wonderful Eric Carle, is totally right for him at 13 months. There are no words--just huge, bright pictures of elephants and giraffe and lions and seals.
Each animal rides in his own train car, packed with others of his kind. At the bottom of each page the train cars get added, one by one, so that I can remind Kiefer of the numbers of this animal or that when we get to a new one. Each animal also gets his own excited yell from Kiefer, who seems to like dogs the best but...jury really is still out as communication is, well, limited.
We have had the puzzle version of this book--the first four animals--for a few years, so it was a fun surprise when Ben opened the book for the first time and realized that. The puzzles have brought us a lot of quality play (I often take them to restaurants as they are small but there are four of them).
At the zoo yesterday we did a counting game--we wondered which animal was there the most of? (That seems so grammatically wrong...hmmm...) The answer? 18 turtles, seen the first 10 minutes of our time there!
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