ABC Animal Orchestra cardboard book for the Tag Jr.
It features every letter from A-Z, sometimes displaying one letter per page, sometimes two. Each letter is accompanied by a cute animal playing a musical instrument, both the animal and the instrument's name start with the letter in question, which makes it more interesting.
I'm not sure if it was just the one I got, but my book was not bright and as such the colors did not come alive. The printing was way too dark for a child's book. Still, you get over this fact quickly enough with the great sounds that come out from each page.
So, what "interactive" parts does this book have?
Pressing the Tag Jr. on the letters once says the letter out loud, subsequent pressings prompt the user with questions such as "Which animal's name starts with the letter D?".
Pressing the Tag Jr. on the animals once produces the sound of the instrument he/she is holding, press again and the device ask with what letter the animal in question's name starts.
Another activity that I found pretty fun was when you tapped your little Tag Jr. on a Cat, after a few tries the device asks you to find another cat in your book, so you have to go on and find the Jaguar or the Tiger.
The last two pages have a spread out animal orchestra with the complete alphabet above them. Pressing on the letters plays a cute rendition of the ABC song. Pressing on the animals here has the same effect here as in previous pages with the exception that sometimes they play an instrumental version of the alphabet song, which is nice too.
Overall it's a cute book, but don't expect a story here, it's exactly what it claims to be, an ABC Animal Orchestra book.
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This is one that is truly appropriate for the full range specified. Even my 15-month-old daughter loves it and benefits from an alphabet introduction.
Yet, it is not just an ABC book. It is also an animal book and a musical book. It builds vocabulary, it is entertaining, and it periodically challenges your older Tag Junior user to a book-wide search for things. It does show the upper and lower case letters, which as an elementary educator I love. My 3-year-old looked at me with a pretend grumpy face and said, "that gorilla looks grumpy, like this." I thought that was so cute and funny. What I also like about this book is that it doesn't feature the usual "instruments" and has things like Kangaroo's Kazoo, Newt's Nose Flute, Quails' quartet, Tiger's turntable, Yak's yodel, Armadillo's accordian, Cat's congas, Dingo's didgeridoo, Gorilla's gong, Jaguar's jug, Iguana's Indian bells, and so forth. Even my 4½ -year old got a kick out of the newt playing a flute with its nose.
I gave this book "full credit" because it is a good value given that it will benefit the full range specified and then some. Not only that but it's just a cool kids' book. Cool, modern, non-licensed illustrations. LeapFrog thought outside the box on this one and I love it. Don't hesitate.
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This is a great starter Tag Jr. book, and has a lot of places for kids to touch with the Tag or Tag Jr. reader and get some fun responses. This makes for great interactive play.
We use this with the Tag reader. ANY Tag Jr. book works with the Tag Reader (that is not true the other way around). So despite the fact that we're not quite ready for Tag books, we bought the Tag reader because it works with both types of books.
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My 18-month-old daughter got this book with her Tag Jr. system. It really holds her attention. Each animal (A-Z) has several different noises/sounds/activities. Example: you can push the gorilla several times one for "G", one for "Gorilla" and one for the Gorilla sound and one for the sound of the instrument the Gorilla is playing. It's very silly and cute.
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There is just a lot going on with this book. Each page has an animal and instrument beginning with the letter for the page, but it's too much for my 22 month son. He loves books, but he hasn't even looked through every page of this book yet. He will look at the first page, then start flipping till the end. We do like the last page where it plays the ABC song! That's our best and favorite part. Maybe he will grow into it? If he does, I'll update the review.
