Tigers and Sails and ABC Tales [VHS]

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(5 stars) - Excellent tool for teaching letters!
My son loves this book. He likes the way that it reads and he also just enjoys looking at the artwork. It is a good combination of learning letters while exposing kids to fine art.

(4 stars) - Great for Art, not for ABC's
Although I rarely find an ABC book I find satisfactory, this one was worse than most as an introduction to the alphabet. "A is for artist" is not a good introduction for the letter A as "ar" is a relatively advanced sound for a beginning reader. "I is for island" has not only the long i but also a silent s; this is most confusing for a young child. It is much better to use the short vowel sounds for the vowels and the hard c and g sounds in an ABC book used as an introduction to the alphabet for a young child.

Thus I will not be using this book as ABC book; I will use it as a art book for my young son. Fortunately it should seve that purpose quite well as the pictures are indeed lovely and quite varied. If I were rating it only as an art book for young children, it would have 5 stars. Truly I look forward to sharing it with him this summer and using it as means of developing his verbal language skills. I just wish I could use it as an ABC book as well without reservation.

(5 stars) - Pedestrian?
(...)! I am a parent and have a large family. I am also very well educated and not a librarian! I can only say that the friends to whom I have lent this book say that their children love the text and are captivated by the quality and content of the reproductions. I would like to know why all children's books must have the same idiotic cant? It's as if there is a huge children's book factory out there that pumps out insipid books that have the same monotonous rhymes. Change is scary to librarians and especially to parents. I say buy this book and challenge your child to learn something scholarly, new and different.

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