Zip It and Train Review

Nate and I recently received two lovely books from Little Tiger Press, Zip It and Train.

The first book Nate sat and 'read' was Zip It. Zip It is great for little hands its a board book which contains five different fastenings to play with. Nate found the Zip a little hard at first as it was stiff but after opening and closing it no less than a hundred times he found it a lot easier.

The piggy button works really well, as it does look just like a pig nose.

The only page that I'm not sure about is the hen page which has velcro on it, on our version Nate has only used it a few times and it is already looking a bit worn. 

The best page has to be the last page where it teaches them how to tie shoe laces. 

Next is the book Train, this has been printed as a board book. As I am trying to teach Nate how to read I have really enjoyed reading this book to Nate as there are words that are repeated a lot it has meant I read the story and Nate reads the repeated words. These words have a different coloured background to help with identifying which is great for early readers as it allows them to feel like they are reading a proper story.

Enormous Crocodile Review

I loved Roald Dahl books growing up. Fantastic Mr Fox I read several times and I still count it as one of my favourite books so much so I couldn't wait to read it to/with Nate. Fantastic Mr Fox was the first non picture book we had attempted to  read to Nate so we went to find another for bed time.

Nate really enjoyed reading the Enormous Crocodile. The version we chose contained full colour illustrations so he enjoyed looking at the pictures and pointing to the animal being talked about in the story. However, even on pages were there were no illustrations he stayed  sitting listening to the story. Nate loves animals so loved listening to the different animals in the story. It took about three nights to read and finding a good place to stop each night was difficult but it will definitely be read again.