Knick Knack Paddywhack

Such a wacky refrain and incredible feats by the old men!

My preschool special ed students LOVE this book, they would read it 10 times each day if I allowed them to. It's fun, had wonderful pop-ups and pull tabs and reinforces beginning reading skills such as rhyming. A must for children who need encouragement to listen to stories.

I bought this book based on reviews on this site of the author, Paul O. Zelinsky. I wasn't sure if it was age appropriate for my son (17 months), but he loves books and I just decided to give it a go. My husband and I opened it while our son was sleeping and we just LOVED it. The drawings are amazing and the engineering of the tab movement is unbelivevable. It had us in awe for 10 or 20 minutes. The book might not be kid friendly, but if you can hold your child for a few minutes and show them the movement of the pictures and read the story it will be great.

I agree with other reviewers that the pulls are a little stiff on this book, but i just slip a finger in the page while a pull and they all go easily. Not a big deal to me at all. I cannot let my 10 month old play with this book like she does many of her others, but I knew that from the start. She finds it mesmerizing though and I have a feeling that we will get years of use out of this one!!

My three year old son loves this book and we read it every night. He is constantly finding new things to open, close, move, etc. After about 2 months of constant use, one of the tabs finally broke, which is much better than other lift/move books he has. Highly recommend this book!

This is far and away the best movable I have ever seen. The attention to detail and the unbelievable quality of the book is amazing. There is a new something I see everytime I open the book. Wait until you read it through a few times and you find a new detail or creative way for the movement to happen. My daughter and I love this book so much I am buying another one to put away for her child.