Kim Mitzo Thompson

This Read-Along / Sing Along board book for young children explores traveling by plane train, boat, truck, car, bus, and bike as well as walking for good health. Bouncy, repetitive patterns help young children recognize and understand the world around them as they develop the background knowledge essential for beginning reading and the charming illustrations will delight them.

The accompanying CD includes a read-along, a read-along with page-turning cues, and a sing-along of the story as well as a dozen other children’s songs, all designed to reinforce developing literacy skills.

Highly recommended.… (mais)

A collection of fun and educational songs that encourage interaction by clapping and dancing. This is a playful and excellent collection for young kids and their parents. The music can become a bit monotonous to parents if repeated for an extended duration, yet kids never seem to tire of it.

There are some classic kids songs on this collection and I honestly hadn't heard them in a long time. I though the music and vocals were adequate and not over complex. This certainly makes sense given the audience and wanting to emphasize such things as rhythm, words, and dancing. I enjoyed it but it can get old after a while.… (mais)

This board book is a bit off for me, although the parts aren't that bad, but put together as a whole, something doesn't work. The story is about various animals coaxing their children to bed, one way or another, concluding with a human mom and her baby. The book is told in rhyme, and while it is not horrible, it's not great either. The sentences aren't contorted to fit the rhyme scheme (well, just a couple), but the rhyme scheme is clearly more important than the subject of the lines, and the whole effect feels a bit insipid. The illustrations are similarly mediocre. I hate disliking this series of board books, because I do admire the women who put them together and their motivations, I just think they are not quality books. The CDs help, but as far as the book itself, the only one of this set of three we received as a gift that I actually like is the book of nursery rhymes. Night-Night Time and its companion, another bed time story, are good in concept but poor in execution.… (mais)