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Summary: Book is colorful, but lacks read-aloud-ability
Review: We love Dora, but these Simon Spotlight\Nick Jr. books lack read-aloud-ability. Since my daughter and son are 4 and 2-years respectively, they love Dora and Boots, and I have bought several of these little books but always with pretty much the same experience: I have to invent parts of the storyline and/or ignore some of it. For example, in this book the crew comes upon a ladder with no wrungs. Like in the television version the wrungs are hidden in the forest and need to be found and counted. No problem. However rather than showing Diego, Dora and Boots climbing the ladder after their successfully reconstructing it, we are shown two pages of them sliding down a zip cord. For young kids this is a discontinuity. They need to see them climb the completed ladder. It is a stupid bit of editing in my humble opinion. There are other examples of similar unreadability and my advice is to get these at the library, or if you must own, we really like Little Star.
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Summary: Book is colorful, but lacks read-aloud-ability
Review: We love Dora, but these Simon Spotlight\Nick Jr. books lack read-aloud-ability. Since my daughter and son are 4 and 2-years respectively, they love Dora and Boots, and I have bought several of these little books but always with pretty much the same experience: I have to invent parts of the storyline and/or ignore some of it. For example, in this book the crew comes upon a ladder with no wrungs. Like in the television version the wrungs are hidden in the forest and need to be found and counted. No problem. However rather than showing Diego, Dora and Boots climbing the ladder after their successfully reconstructing it, we are shown two pages of them sliding down a zip cord. For young kids this is a discontinuity. They need to see them climb the completed ladder. It is a stupid bit of editing in my humble opinion. There are other examples of similar unreadability and my advice is to get these at the library, or if you must own, we really like Little Star.
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