I didn't much like book one of this series, but book two is fabulous! Elementary age students are able to choose the best answers to complete sentences, make inferences, decide whether or not a sentence makes sense, and choose the answer that makes the most logical sense. They are able to practice numerous critical thinking skills.

I think it's great to encourage critical thinking or logic skills among young children. They're quite able to learn these skills!

This book would be terrific for homeschoolers, other educators, and parents who want to work with little ones on these skills at home.

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work (Bethany House, 2010) ( )

This book is meant for LITTLE children - like five or six-year-olds. Despite that fact, my husband and I and our very intelligent children were only able to figure out about HALF of these logic puzzles! We're all quite good at logic puzzles, but there were some that just did NOT make sense.

The goal throughout the whole book is to figure out "what comes next". Here are the items listed on page 21 (in correct order): a dog eating, an apple core, someone washing dishes, laundry, kids hanging up a flag, a child raising his/her hand, and the blank... - What comes next?!?!? I still don't know! Oh well. We figured out most of them.

Seriously, the ones we could figure out were neat logic puzzles requiring critical thinking for early elementary age children. There were some that just didn't make sense, though. If there is a teacher's manual, you'll probably want it.

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us (Bethany House, 2010) ( )