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My daughter is a little over a year old and her older brother has a LeapFrog TAG Reading System Green and books. After endless struggles between them because little sister wanted to read with the pen too I decided to get her one too. I didn't want to get the Tag Jr. because it doesn't look the same and would not solve the envy problem I had working against me. That being said I really didn't want to buy her 'regular paper' books just yet. She's 50/50 on the destruction of them and most certainly can't left alone with them yet. So I went onto LeapFrog's website and verified that all Tag Jr. books will work with the Tag Pen. The only thing is that with the Tag Pen books you can touch one word and it will read just that. Whereas Tag Jr. books you touch the page and it reads the whole page. When you use the Tag Pen on Tag Jr. books it still will the entire page. I can't speak to storage on the Tag Jr. but the Tag Pen I am able to store all of these books, LeapFrog Tag Learn to Read Phonics Book Series Short Vowels, LeapFrog Tag Book Finding Nemo: Lost And Found, LeapFrog Tag Junior Book: ABC Animal Orchestra, along with the sample book that comes installed. That takes up just more than half of the storage on the pen so we certainly can add more.

Now onto the specific review of this product. These books are ok when it comes to the education value. I really don't feel that they are truly trying to teach the kids to read or even really teach them vowel sounds, although they are all present an accounted for. The characters on them are fun and they all have a great 30+ second songs that my daughter loves to play and then hold the pen over her head and 'rock out' it's adorable! So if you're looking for an educational tool to "Get Ready to Read" skip this. If you are looking for entertainment for the younger audience 5 Stars for sure. My son (3.5) also loves these books because of the music. Also I have to say the songs are NOT terribly annoying compared to a lot of kid products. Kudos LeapFrog!

Would I buy this product again? For the price that I paid ($14.95) for the 5 books abosolutely. They may not contain much education (or words in general) but the music alone has already provided a lot of entertainment and the fact that my 14 month old daughter can sit down and push anywhere on the page and make it 'go' is just great. :)

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We started these back at 2 with my son, when he already knew the alphabet and what sound each letter made. These books were a HUGE part of how we taught him to read and not the "whole word reading" which is basically just code for memorizing, I mean true phonetic reading where he can accurately sound out words he has never seen before thanks to what he has learned. They are well designed to teach specific early phonics rules about short vowel sounds and were an important part of how we achieved reading by 3. I highly highly highly recommend them.

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My son likes to use this Tag Jr set in the car. We have a fairly long commute and these keep him busy. He asks for these at home also and we both use the reader and read to him and he enjoys the different sounds. Good variety of sounds, colors, education and entertainment.

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I read these to my son myself rather than buy the actual electronic Tag. I'll read him words like "hat" and "tap" and sound them out so that he can see the sounds that make up the words. I do the same with "My First Phonics Dictionary" and he asks for that book every day. I think he'll be doing the same with these in no time. Very happy to find this set.

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TI gave this along with Tag JR and several books to my grandson for Christmas. I'm very pleases with it and he loves to sit and learn from the various books.

The actual case is well made and holds a few books, and stylus.