Each Peach Pear Plum

by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

For ages 2-6 years

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This charmingly illustrated book is really a game of "I Spy" masquerading as a romp through the nursery rhyme and other classic folk tale favorites. You can certainly read it happily to a very little one, just enjoying the pictures and the rhyming couplets on each page. But the real trick of it takes a preschooler to find the hidden image on each page -- "Cinderella on the stairs/I spy the three bears" -- and then to tell the story it refers to. It is a lovely little book that can be either a quick run through a little poem-prompted pointing game or a leisurely link from one classic story to another. And if this books reminds your three-year-old to tell you the long version of the Goldilocks story, complete with hands-on-hip "who has been sleeping in my bed?" outrage, by all means do have the video camera ready.

$6.99

Review provided by The Savvy Source.