Alphabet Puzzle

by Melissa and Doug

For ages 2 to 5 years

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There is a delightful moment in alphabet learning when your little one is so sure that a B is a B that he or she will just frown at the suggestion that a b is also a B. Preposterous. Charming as it is, it does seem that learning both capital and lowercase letters is required for true mastery of the alphabet, and this 52-piece wooden puzzle is a perfect way to get there. Underneath the letters, written upper- and then lower-case, next to each other, like an old-fashioned schoolbook, are pictures of things that start with the same letter - yo-yo underneath the lowercase Y, for example. And the letters can be removed from the puzzle (be careful of the small, choking-sized little pieces in order both to keep them away from littler siblings and to keep them from getting lost) and manipulated by your child. She can master the order of the alphabet and the different kinds of letters, and then she can progress to spelling simple words, all by herself. A wonderful way to have her really touch and feel and ?own' her own alphabet.

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