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This is a cute board book for preschoolers about kittens. It's part of a series of books that includes one on bunnies, one on puppies, and one on zoo babies. I thought the illustrations were nice for the intended age. My only complaint -- and the one which dropped its rating -- is the author showed the kittens lapping up milk. The book was written in 1996, but even by that time, giving milks to cats and kittens was not advised. I wonder how many preschoolers wanted to give their feline show more friends some milk as a result of this book. Still it's a book preschoolers who love their furry friends will enjoy. Parents just need to be ready to explain why the kitty cannot be given milk. show less

A Christmas-themed activity book with coloring, crossword, puzzles, mazes, and more.

My daughter had only done a few of the mazes and drawing prompts when we bought it for her as a toddler, but she -- now 24 -- and I had a bit of fun mocking the bland activities as we completed them all today.

ISBN 0866115463 - Nursery rhymes are so unoriginal that something else in the book, other than the text, has to be fantastic to make it more appealing than the other million nursery rhyme books out there. The pop-ups in this one are enough to make the book average, but not more.

Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, Hey Diddle Diddle and Rock-a-Bye Baby are the rhymes inside, each one taking up two full pages. Most of the pages are given to large pop-ups that add a little something show more extra to the book. No author or illustrator is listed.

The illustrations are cute and every one of them has a small extra - mice carrying a stretcher in Humpty Dumpty, blackbirds who appear to be helping Little Bo Peep and more. The small touches make the images just a little more fun. The pages are a thin cardboard which is sturdier than paper but not difficult to damage. The pop-ups, of the same thin cardboard, pop right up when you first open a new book but if you ever happen to close the book wrong and trap a pop-up the wrong way, the popping is over. Slightly tougher pages would be a nice. It's not a bad book, it's not just nothing special.

- AnnaLovesBooks show less

I give it 4 STARS. You just gotta' love any fairy tale that ends with the wicked queen wearing "red-hot iron shoes, and dancing until she fell down dead. Snow White and the Prince lived happily ever after." I get a real kick outta these old kids books, they sure don't write books like this anymore. Fawns lungs to start the story.... anyone?