Camera Buy - Night Sounds (Play the Sounds, Pull the Tabs)

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Manufacturer: Innovative Kids

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781584760658
ISBN: 1584760656
Label: Innovative Kids
Manufacturer: Innovative Kids
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 16
Publication Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher: Innovative Kids
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Innovative Kids

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Editorial Reviews:

In nature, we often hear the sound of a bird or an animal before we can see it. Our new Hear and There Books have the same effect. After reading a short riddle, children are asked "What am I?" By pushing a color-coded button on the sound strip, they can hear the call of the bird or the animal. When they pull the tab on the right page, the animal is revealed. To find out more about the featured bird or animal, readers can lift the flap on the left-hand page for more detailed information on its habitat, its young, and its behavior. Written by a professional naturalist, these books are beautifully illustrated, fun to listen to, and filled with interesting facts!

This book introduces the calls of eight different North American birds that children can easily imitate. By reading the clues about each bird, hearing its call, and pulling the tab to see its colorful feathering, children are soon able to identify the sounds and appearance of the killdeer, American robin, barred old, eastern towhee, northern cardinal, black-capped chickadee, red-winged blackbird, and northern bobwhite.

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Conclusion: Great book

Review: I gave this book to my three-year old twin grandsons, and they spent hour after hour looking through it and using the tabs. They would then quiz me on what type of animal was on the page. The illustrations are beautiful, and the sounds are terrific.

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Conclusion: LIKE IT BUT DONT LOVE IT

Review: I like the sounds of all the night creatures and the pictures but its not a "lift the flap book". It's more of a "pull the tab" thing. I feel like the quality of the paper is flimsy and it wont hold up for years to come like our other similar books. I would recommend an adult to help out the child when reading this one. All and all it's not bad but I like the "farm animal sounds" and "vehicle sounds" better

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Conclusion: Great Book on Many Levels

Review: I have had this book for quite some time and use it with my speech and language students. I am actually thinking of getting a second copy for back up, it's that useful for my daily therapy. It's wonderful for the very little one as well as the more typically developing child.

Safari Sounds is even more pertinent to my students.

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Conclusion: Listen to the Sounds of Animals

Review: I love this book. I bought it for my baby nephew for Christmas. He loves to push buttons and play with toys that make sounds. The book was listed as being for slightly older children, but if you supervise your child (to make sure that they don't pull out the tabs or chew on the book) they will be sure to enjoy it. My nephew was thrilled that he could push a button, repeately, and hear an exciting sound. That was the most important part for him. His daddy read the book and told him about the animal, then my nephew pulled on the tab to see a picture of the animal that he had just heard. He laughed and squealed and kept pushing the button to hear the animal "talk". When he's old enough to read, I think he will even appreciate to the book even more. Until then, he's content to push the buttons over and over again.

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Conclusion: Coyotes, katydids and owls -- oh my!

Review: This book was bought as a family Christmas present last month. I thought that my boys, ages 3 and 6, would like it but jumpin' jimminy, it's become their favorite bedtime book.

Basically, you have a riddle on one side of the page that gives a few hints about the creature, and then you press the color-coded button on the bar below. The creature's sound is called and the child can try to guess its name. Then he can pull a tab on the opposite page to reveal a hidden picture of the night creature. Another flap under the riddle has more information.

My six year old cannot get enough of this. After we'd only read the book through a few times he started to play "guess this sound" games with me. He has all 10 creature calls memorized, as well as a lot of facts on each one. How many kids today know what a whippoorwill is, much less what it sounds like? As far as I'm concerned, Night Sounds is the perfect example of how to make learning both fun and effective for children.

I am planning on getting Bird Sounds and Safari Sounds (the other two books in this series) based on the tremendous enjoyment we have gotten out of Night Sounds. Fabulous teaching tool and a highly recommended family read-aloud book.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.

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