Spot makes it even more fun (Spot's Big Book of Colours, Shapes and Numbers)

Member Name: sam_k

Product:	Spot's Big Book of Colours, Shapes and Numbers
Date:	22/11/08 (44 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Colourful, simple illustrations and text, educational

Disadvantages: -

Spot and his friends help you to teach your child colours, shapes and numbers.

It is a large book (similar size to A4 paper) I have a hard cover copy but I believe it is available in paperback too, the RRP for the hard cover is £7.99 currently.

The cover is red with the titile of the book in white text with Spot holding a ball as the main focus of the illustration.

The book covers colours first, with a page devoted each to Red, Yellow, blue and green, There is a short introduction on each page with bold illustrations of Spot and his friends with objects and text labels. Included on the red page you will find traffic light, ladybird, truck and apple. Yellow show sun, bananas, lemon and duck. On the green page is grass, peas, frog and parrot and for blue you will find bird, paint, jeans and curtains. It then moves on to a page of black and white things - umbrella, ice-cream, beetle and panda, then a page of more colours showing an orange pumpkin, pink balloons, grey squirral, purple plums and brown dessert.

The book then moves onto shapes with a page each for triangle, square, circle and rectangle again showing things that are whichever shape the page is showing such as flag, hat, sandwich, cushion, plate, clock, tray, domino. As with the colours there is a short introduction on each page and you will again meet Spot and his friends.

Next we have numbers and over the next 3 double pages move from 1 to 10 with Spot and friends showing us things to illustrate each number with the word and number also shown. You will see one ball, 4 balloons, 6 toys and 10 storybooks.

The last 2 pages in the book give you a chance to see how much your child has picked up from the book. There is a picture of a tractor and a picture of an apple tree and questions of 'what colour is the tractor?' and 'what other colours can you see'. On the bottom half of the same page is 'What's the shape?' with pictures of a mirror and a rug to identify the shape of. The last page is 'How many?' which asks how many bones does Spot have and 'How many balls does Helen have?'

This a lovely book well laid out with colourful simple illustrations that will help your child to learn colours, numbers and shapes as well as object identification for the slightly younger child.

It is a great book that you can look through together counting things, finding things that are a particular colour not only on the specific page for that activity but all through the book. And of course you have Spot and friends which many young children are familiar with to make it even more fun

Summary: Great to look at with your child and helps them learn too