The Letters Are Lost! (Picture Puffins)

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Summary: Don't bother looking for them
Review: I was really disappointed in this book. It's biggest problem is shared by many of the alphabet books - it makes bad choices in examples to represent the sound of the various letters creating more confusion than help in learning to write and read. (For example, "xylophone" is used to represent the letter "x". However the "x" in that word actually sounds like a "z". For a young child learning to read, it's more important to provide them with a more common and true sound for the letter "x" such as at the end of "fox") Unfortunately, most writers and editors are not aware of the best practices for young children to first learn to write and read and what is useful to promote learning is very different from a young child's perspective than from an adult's who can already read and write well. In addition to this common failing with most ABC books, this book is bland and even the bad phonemic representations are not interesting with equally uninteresting pictures.

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Summary: Letters Are Lost
Review: This is a wonderful book. I have two toddler daughters, and this book has been instrumental in their development and learning of the abc's. It is always the first book that they ask for. I would recommended it to every parent that is trying to educate and entertain their children.