National Geographic Kids Look and Learn: Opposites!

by National Geographic Kids

Overview

In these 24 page board books, young children will learn important skills such as naming, sorting, rhyming, counting, matching, and finding through fun, interactive games and activities. These popular games featured in National Geographic Little Kids magazine use beautiful National Geographic photography to demonstrate early concepts.

In this book, curious children will be entertained by the satisfying puzzles based on opposite matches, both in isolation and in their environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426310430
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/14/2012
Series:	Look & Learn
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	656,632
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, website, apps, games, toys, television series and events and is the only kids brand with a world-class scientific organization at its core.

Editorial Reviews

National Geographic offers a muddled take on opposites for little ones. In bright photos and with simple captions, various animals, people and objects demonstrate such concepts as big/little, soft/hard and black/white. A big orca and a little goldfish is the first example, and on the next spread, readers are invited to identify big and little polar bears in a snowy field. Subsequent pages follow the same pattern, introducing the concept and then inviting readers to identify opposites within a scene. These scenes include "Guess What?" bubbles that share related facts and vary from the age-appropriate ("A baby sheep is called a ‘lamb' ") to too abstract for toddlers ("The world's biggest pillow fight had 3,706 people"). The final tableau shows a family enjoying a marshmallow roast in the snow, and youngsters are asked to review all the concepts they have encountered on previous pages. Some of the photos are quite inviting to peruse, but more than a few look jarringly altered and out of proportion. Given National Geographic's rich catalog of eye-catching photos, it is puzzling that they would need to doctor any. Companion Shapes! suffers from proportion issues and a couple of inaccuracies. This overly didactic book may confuse rather than enlighten young learners. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews