We bought this for my daughter this year and although she is probably still a bit too young for it I think its an excellent way of introducing words and sounds and a visual way of showing her the pictures of the words as well. The Early Learning Centre describe this as a game that gets you to, "Match up the word cards with the pictures and letters. Great for learning letter names and phonic sounds." The set comes with a red plastic tablet which is where you put the batteries and where the cards are placed and the speaker on it, a little owl figurine and a green case which holds all the cards in it. The little owl figurine looks like a little ...  Read the complete review

The purpose of this game is to encourage simple letter and phonic sound recognition by matching up word cards with pictures and letters. I bought this for my 4 year old son as he is starting school in September (-eek!) and I wanted to develop his knowledge of letter names and sounds and knowing that B, b and b (said phonetically) are the same letter! The game is good but I was a little disappointed to discover that there are only 17 pairs- the letters J, K, L Q, R, V, X, Y and Z are missing. This did get my little boy a bit cross as he wanted to spell out his name and he couldn't as there was no L! Early Learning Centre categorises its ...  Read the complete review