Phidal

We bought this book because my daughter had birthday money and this is what she chose. Let's be honest - the book is just a vehicle for the toys. My daughter wanted it because it came with little plastic Cars figurines. It also has a plastic mat with roads on it that can be laid out for the cars. My girl never uses that. She does, however, play with the toy cars all the time. As for the book itself: the poetry is terrible. Contrived lines that are forced to fit the rhyme scheme, and are show more really just advertisements for the new Cars movie. The pictures are gorgeous, but that's because they are cells of the different cars from the movie, pasted on a vibrant colored background. Not much of a book at all. I wouldn't recommend this, unless your child really likes the toy cars. I give it two stars, even though we have never sat down and read the book together, because my child loves those cheap toys. (By the way, I did read the book on my own, just to see what the quality was. My daughter isn't interested in sitting down and reading it with me, and I'm not forcing her to that chore.) show less

A collection of Mickey Mouse newspaper strips from early in his career, probably the 1930's, when Horace Horsecollar was his frequent partner and not Goofy. Credited to Walt Disney, but certainly ghosted, these strips are naive, energetic, implausible, dated, and a fair amount of fun to read.

Very attractive to toddlers and an excellent toy for automobile trips. There are four or five different magnetic panoramas (with some text which can be read to a child if desired) and twenty-some little animals and farm vehicles which can be moved around on the pages. The magnetic effect works quite well: the little figures won't fall out and get lost. The book is a bit heavier than most board books but the children don't seem to mind.

This book touches a little bit on different types of transportation such as cars, buses, and airplanes. It is a magnet book. Each page has a scene of either the road in a neighborhood or an intersection. It does not have a specific plot or characters.

As soon as I saw that this book was a magnet book, I was interested and I knew that my five year old son would enjoy it. This book does not really have a plot but it allows the child to use their imagination and place the magnets where they show more think they should be and even create their own series of events.

In a classroom, I would have the students think of what they would like to be when they grow up. Then I would ask them to bring in a model of the type of transportation they may use. Some examples would be of a police car or an ambulance. Another idea would be to give them a beginning idea to start a story dealing with one type of transportation and then have the students write their own version of events in a short story. show less