The Usborne First Thousand Words

just loved very much. i did read all reviews. all are great! originally i got this books for my sister and my father . for then to learn son INGLISH very funny they, just went over a couples times, then give up. now i have a grandson who is 2 and half year old. he discover it. on his own and now like all you are saying. is his number 1 book to read every day all the time!. now i want to but a few more to bring over seas to give it as a gift for others to enjoy then too. its a great book for any age who can learn and play. talking stories about it. thanks all

This book almost drove me crazy when my son was tiny. We were big on reading to him but whenever we allowed him his choice, he ALWAYS chose this book. So often that we began to call it the Oh No book. As in "Oh no! Not the Thousand Words Book again". But we had a great time with the book. We spent hours and hours and hours talking about what was depicted in each two-page spread. The kid who spilled the drink. The cat on the cupboard. It's 13 years later and I still remember. My daughter loved it too. We got the french version of the same series when we registered our kids in french-immesion nursery school - also great. I've shared the Oh No book with countless parents of toddlers. Too bad it seems to be out of print - I'm looking for it for my nephew.

This book is the BEST! Each double page spread has a big picture full of things going on (a farm, a city street, a kitchen, a garden, a party, etc). Then around the edges it has individual pictures of most of the important parts of the picture (with the word below the picture). Even before our toddler could talk we could play "find the ___" in the picture. It REALLY helped his verbal skills. The book helped us too because we could figure out what HE was calling things. At 10-14 months or so a horse was a nay-nay, crackers and cookies were frak-fraks, TV was ee-bee, etc. It was really fun watching him make the connection between the pictures in the book and real life. We would play the "find this item in our living room game" sometimes. I would point to the TV in the book and say "where is our TV?" and he would go point at it. Then the lamp, the door, the window, etc. Even though he could not say the words it was pretty clear that he understood them. He is three now (got the book at 10 months) and it is STILL his favorite book and he gets upset if we do not read and play with it each day. We were all surprised one day (at about 11 months) when he looked up at the TV and yelled "sheep!" when there was a flock on a TV commercial on the screen. We did not even know he knew that word. ;-)I recommend this book to anybody with a toddler (on up). It is well worth the price! I think we have as much fun as he does! They make these books (the same pictures) in a bunch of different languages so this can be a fun gift for an older child too. You gotta get this book!

The scenarios in this book seem to go on and on..there's always a picture I didn't notice before. This is an excellent book for picking out individual objects from a busy scene, matching, storytelling. I like how it offers a lot of verbs and shows them in action instead of only nouns. The illustrations are fun, creative and lively. This is my 22 mo. old daughter's favorite book since the day she got it!

I live in Japan and teach English to both children and adults. This book is a fun, visual way to point out common everyday items and put a simple name to them. In fact, I am giving copies of this book to some of my younger students in hopes that they will continue learning English after I am gone!

This book is full of exiciting scenes for your child to look through as you name all the different objects. Not a night goes by that my 18 month son doesn't bring me this book at least twice.