Toys and Games Books

I have just recently begun collecting these dolls and their clothes. I love miniatures and the detail that goes into them when they are done to scale, use quality materials, and there is attention to detail. This doll has all that. I have Barbie dolls from my childhood and the first clothes offered for that doll had style and quality --- the later clothing line didn't come close. Mattel now makes a Silkstone line of Barbies for collectors that has that quality back.

Tonner Doll Company has had the quality in the doll and clothes since it's inception. The doll and clothes are to die for. Such detail in material, buttons, zippers, lining, etc., makes for beautiful clothes for the doll. And it all goes with the doll's story line - The House of Wentworth - a fashion designer company. I now have three Tyler Wentworth dolls (blonde, brunette, and red head), Tyler's sister Marley, Tyler's boyfriend Matt O'Neill, and a Sydney Chase doll (of the Chase Modeling Agency).

This book explained the doll's story well, introduces you to her friends & associates and displays the doll's clothes beautifully. I truly enjoyed this book!

I enjoy collecting these dolls and displaying them in their different outfits. I highly recommend this book (and "The Robert Tonner Story" book) to all Fashion Doll collectors and especially for Tonner Doll Co. doll collectors too! Enjoy!

This is a wonderful coffee table book loaded with great photos of Tyler, and her story. I love creating outfits, and having a fashion book filled with creative, gorgeous outfits that work is stimulating. Plus, sharing the book with my little friend who just loves to look at the dolls and clothes is a treat.

I don't collect Tyler Wentworth dolls but still loved the book. Lots of good pictures.

I find this book indispensible when trolling eBay for Tyler and family outfits and accessories. There are wonderful detail pictures of the outfits and dolls and special editions. The pictures show you what should have come with the doll or outfit originally. It provides edition sizes too and has saved me money by preventing me from bidding on partial outfits or dolls that are incomplete or have been modified. I have worn this hardback just about limp but it has such a strong binding and good quality paper that it is still stout. I wish Tonner would do a similar book for the Brenda Starr series when she has her 5th anniversary with Tonner.

As a collector of Robert Tonner dolls, this book is a must have as a wonderful reference and history of his dolls. Photographs are gorgeous and wonderful details. I highly recommend this book and Amazon has a wonderful deal on it. This book is first class just like the Robert Tonner doll company!!! A++++++++++

This book is really helpful especially if you are building a personal resource library.

Using this book is one of the very best ways I have found to review and teach math facts. Any level of math can be reviewed in the same time frame. Excellent for facts application, recall accuracy, and problem solving speed. You only need to give 2-3 problems a day. Consistence is the key, a little everyday. I also like Beestar (an excellent web site with free weekly math practice at www.beestar.org). They both let kids use and enforce their math skills daily while having fun. Highly recommend.

I got this book and I've never seen my children so interested in solving math problems. The reward of finding out some trivia at the end of the problem seemed to work wonders.

Now that they are done with it I make up problems for them to solve based on facts I find.

Bring on Volume 2!

I am not a math teacher, but our district has "Math Day" once a year. All teachers teach a math unit on that day. I was able to use this book to make my activity "Math Around the World" because it had fantastic facts about things on many continents. The students were fascinated, and enjoyed finding out how thick the ice was at Antarctica, how long the Statue of Liberty's nose was, etc. High interest, good variety, and provides good daily math problems.

There are a lot of products similar to this one, but this is the best "Math Games" book that I have ever purchased. It has easy-to-understand instructions and games are matched to appropriate grade-level curriculum. Students really enjoy these games and have opportunities to learn from them by reflecting on the strategies they use, creating new games, and by attempting challenging tasks included in the book. If you are looking for a good Math games book, look no further.

There's one game in this book that's worth the whole price--Skyscraper Runup, a kind of relay race for computation that students *love* to play. The Remainder Raccoon game is also a hit. The others are fun, too. I highly recommend the book. I've worn out my copy already!

This book is a must for all teachers who struggle with making kids assimilate difficult concepts such as calculating equivalent fractions, geometry, measurement, probability and statistics, decimals, and mathematical operations ranging from addition all the way through divisions with remainder.

It contains black and white masters to photocopy in order to build your own board games. What I have done so far, is photocopy the games, color them and then have them laminated so that they can last longer. These board games are ideal for small group instruction or learning centers. Most of the games require not only the board and/or the dice, but a worksheet for the kids to color while they advance on the board, making the games even more engaging for the students.

The games are aimed at students between 3rd and 6th grades, and they all contain really attractive illustrations.

If you are looking for something fun to do with your kids meanwhile they are mastering mathematical reasoning, this book is a must for you!

This book is a guide on how to create the board games for the kids, the board games are not included. Good product.

This is a nice little book young children can enjoy during the holidays. The illustrations did not have quite the variety, color and detail I expected but the printing of the poem along with the
pictures makes for an interesting visual experience and is a good
way to contain grandchildren and keep them quiet for awhile!
Thank you, Martha Morrise

The whole family spends time together looking at them. It's amazing to see the pictures pop out at you and to figure out what they are.

These 3-D things really irked me until I finally got it. I don't have a clue as to how it works but all of a sudden I saw a snowman on the bookcover! Nice stocking stuffer kind of book.

My daughter loves the, "...'Twas the night before Christmas..." poem. We pass the book around so everyone can see the 3-D pictures (which drives my husband crazy!...he can't see 'em!) Very clever.

These are just the right size letters for my preschooler to practice his handwriting. I love this workbook because it is nice and simple, and inexpensive.

There are two pages for each letter. Children can trace both capitol and lower-case letters, then practice making the shapes themselves. They identify the letters when jumbled with similar letters and complete alliterated sentences. It's fantastic for helping with letter formation, recognition and phonetic sounds.

My daughter is three. These worksheets have been a wonderful help to her and fun, too! She loves playing "school". The best part is the free copying!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

This is a very helpful workbook. In the beginning of the year, we do them in class. Once the kids get the hang of it, I send it home as H.W. for extra practice...good morning work, also. Many letter writing workbooks available on the market (and pages that come with reading and phonics series) have too many to trace or not enough. This one fits!! Good job, Scholastic!

my mom surprised me with this when she bought the alpha tales boxed set. i was blasting through the roof when i saw the workbook. it is fun because you get a lot of tracing practice for each letter and the stories match the alpha tales books. and you have fun activites too for each letter. my mom made copies so she could use them for my little brother too. the book said she could do that and now if i mess up she can just copy me another page to do. this book has more times of the letter on it to trace than my other writing book so it is more fun. you should get this book. i am now finished with what i want to say about this one. really - stop typing.

This dictionary is colorful and easy to read. Although the age range states four to eight-year-olds, I think that it is better suited for four to six-year-olds. I bought this for my seven-year-old, but it's more appropriate for his younger brother who will start Kindergarten this Fall. It would also be useful as a supplement for a higher-level dictionary.

This is a bery good bokk for small children. My daughter loves her book and uses it regularly, she is 5 years old and in Kindergarten.

This was my son's favorite book. We took it everywhere we went. I started going through it with him, page by page, when he was about a year old. By the time he was 18 months old, he had it memorized and of course had his favorite pictures. I made up silly stories about some of the pictures, which he found hilarious. It's a great teaching tool. My son is now 18, but I have so many wonderful memories of the times we spent together reading it! I'm buying it for my friend who is adopting a toddler from China. The child speaks no English so I'm sure it will be enormously helpful to her.

This is an excellent resource for beginning readers and writers. I use it in my first grade class. It has great pictures and easy-to-read text

I remember loving this game as a kid, and I still remember much about the authors in the deck 35-40 years later. I just gave this game to my own boys, ages 11 and 8, and they really liked it, too. On a recent trip, we played it in the airports several times to pass the time, and they always wanted to play more. My only complaint is that the instructions are not thorough. We had a couple of basic questions about the rules that aren't answered in the paper rules that come with the deck, and I couldn't get the answers to our questions online, either.

I ordered this product for a Church friend who was very pleased to receive it. Thank you.

As a child, I played this game with my sister, and we knew who wrote what later when we were in school! I use the card game with my high schoolers, and they have a fun day when we play.

We played this a lot growing up and it really helped us in getting to know the great book and authors. Lots of fun.

This is the teddy bear making book that I always have out and refer to. Her bear faces are adorable and she shows you how to make all of the detail in the faces. Great color pictures, very detail instructions.

Absolutelly THE best book!! I started to make teddies a year ago and got more and more absorbed... As my interest grew so did my collection of bearmaking-books. Of all my books this one is my absolute favorite. The pictures alone would get you started right away! It describes everything into the smallest detail, gives excellent tips and containes beautiful patterns.

Absolutelly THE best book!! I started to make teddies a year ago and got more and more absorbed... As my interest grew so did my collection of bearmaking-books. Of all my books this one is my absolute favorite. The pictures alone would get you started right away! It describes everything into the smallest detail, gives excellent tips and containes beautiful patterns.

Bearmaking 101 is an EXCELLENT book. I have been making jointed Teddies for many, many years and I find this book a MUST for any bearmakers complete library. Illustrations are clear. Instructions are easy using both inches and millimeters. She illustrates sizes with phrases such as "using the size of a U.S. nickel". Pictures are brilliant. With this book, you will be making a wonderful bear in no time. Unlike other artists' books, Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh puts the tools and materials section in the back of the book. Be sure to check this out before you start your bear. Buy THIS book. You won't be sorry

This is a great book to have if you want large good patterns and good directions to sew with.Learn all about Bleuette's what fabric and trims were used to make the antique clothes they wore.Beautiful full color pictures of the finished outfit your making,embroidery stiches,trims,and so forth.Bonnets,hats,jackets,a 1909 bathing suit with a cap which is adorable.This has under clothing also.Another great book is Doll Costuming by Mildred & Colleen Seeley,this has shoe patterns for Bru,French,Jumeau & German dolls,I can't sew very well but made 2 pair of shoes which are not as perfect as I'd like but now I feel I could make a pair perfect.The directions are very easy with step by step pictures to follow.Many many full color pictures of antique dolls while telling how and with what there clothes were made.No clothes patterns but sock patterns,silk roses,earrings,tiny baby doll crochet dress,panty,bonnet pattern,shoe size guide,string dolls.This is just full of everything you need to repair,paint and dress antique dolls.I hope this helps!

It was a very perfect delivery and I am very satisfy with the book. I know the book before I purchased it. I have seen it by a friend and therefor I want to have it.

Louise uses the original French patterns and sews them as they were meant to be done. Her work is inspiring.

The book starts with a little history of the doll from French and great vintage pictures are added (through out the book) to show how things were back than and there are instructions how to make the right embroidery stitches that were used. Patterns are actual size and easy to trace. Instructions are easy especially when you're an more experienced sewer but also the novice can have an easy start sewing because there are all kinds of patterns to find in this book. From very easy to complicated (more pattern pieces, pleats to make, put trimming on etc.)you will always find the right pattern to start with.
The pictures of the fashions to make, are the size of one page - 9"x12" - so all kinds of details are there to see. What can I say but this is a wonderful addition to your doll(pattern) books and I'm sure you'll love it! Good for hours and hours of reading and sewing pleasure.

Have been spending some time working through the exercises in this book with my daughter and I think we are both finding a good mix of reinforcement and challenge. I can't speak expertly to the pedagogy behind the book's arrangement or the exercises themselves; but, it seems to follow a pretty logical pattern: each section (phonics, arithmetic, etc.) comprised of exercises testing progressively more complex areas of the skill.

A couple of really nice, really simple features recommend this book (and so I assume the whole series).

First, the exercises are presented on colorful, artful pages that approximate more a bedtime story than those old worksheets we probably all remember from school that were black and white and filled with a series of bars and dotted lines.

Second, the perforated pages are great for a couple of reasons. They make for easy photo copying if you find you want to run off extra copies to take a couple of extra whacks at a particular skill. They are also perfect for the bulletin board when your child does a particularly good job or conquers a challenging page flawlessly. Finally, without the tear-outs, parents would be left to flip through a whole sea of used exercises to find blank sheets everytime they used the book. This way, you only keep the exercises that remain to be completed in the book.

Third, there are a lot of pages for each exercise. A lot of books give you one page to practice writing the letter "g," or only one page of addition with the number "1." This book is thick with pages to keep you busy and give some reinforcement to each skill whether during acquisition or in review.

A couple of criticisms, if I'm being picky: rather than going with a straight, increasing degree of difficulty approach, the editors might have organized the book in a way that more difficult skills could be placed nearer basic skills, provided the skills or the subjects (i.e., the letter, the sound, etc.) are related or complementary.

All in all, I think the books are well-designed and represent a pretty good value for your young student.

I normally do not do reviews after receiving the product the night before...but this was amazing. We received the workbook yesterday via UPS, opened the package and my kids were ready with newly sharpened pencils.

The background - my younger kids are twins (boy/girl) 6 years old and just in 1st grade. They both picked a few pages and started working through them with their grand father.

The book has a great lay out and the instruction/practice is right on par with a 6 year olds attention span. The kids love the friendly pictures and the fact that they are already learning some of this stuff in school.

We are going to now look for the 2nd grade edition and see if we can do some additional after school activities to get the kids moving ahead...

So far so GOOD!.

I love getting workbooks and learning tools for my children. So when I saw this one, for first grade, I jumped at the chance. It was well worth it! This workbook is outstanding. It is easy for him to understand, and fun at the same time. It is essential to get these basics skills so he can build upon them in future grades. I am going to get one for each of the four children.

Bravo Brain Quest!!!

Summary: GREAT! Having gone through what feels like every workbook known to man - or at least Borders, I feel like I can finally stop my quest for the perfect workbook. The book's colors are vibrant, the pictures contemporary, and the content interesting.

Topics are color coded and separated by subject: phonics, reading, social studies, science, sequencing, measurements, math. I am really impressed with the mix of different subjects, especially the science, which is often overlooked in workbooks. The topics are age-appropriate, for instance coloring the land masses and oceans of the earth, reading a short passage on the sun and answering questions (e.g. Is the sun a planet or a star?).

There is a wide mix of ability levels within each subject, except maybe reading. The phonics starts very simply (shows pictures and the name, missing the first letter, and a list of a few letters d,f,g and the child writes in the letter it starts with). It then builds up including recognition of ch, sh, th words. I felt the reading section started at a bit higher level than the other sections ("This is a dragon.") already assuming your child has mastered sight words and sounding out. So, struggling readers may want to move back a workbook level (or better yet, get both).

The math section is really, really great. It moves from writing numbers to addition and subtraction, carefully showing the different forms that problems are written in (e.g. both horizontal and vertical). First the picture may look something like this *** + ** = ***** and your child would write 3 + 2 = 5. A few pages of practice and the next section would look like *** + ** = ________, so it is building on task sequencing skills and stepping the child into learning how to decode and solve the problem. Kudos here. The pictures are cute and engaging. Within the measurement section, my daughter especially loved measuring monsters using a ruler (included on the page) - again, nice skill building.

This book is amazingly full of a diverse number of activities. At the current price, it is a steal. The quality of the materials is better than a lot that comes home.

Cons: The font used is not consistent - in some parts of the book, the a's and g's are those fancy curly-q things that no one actually uses when writing (see the a here). This is difficult for a beginning writer who is trying to wrote a difficult word (e.g. a picture of a girl eating ice cream - a fill in sentence: "The girl is eating ______." with a word bank: cookies, gum, ice cream). For a child copying the words for the spelling, it would be better for the letters to be consistent throughout the book and in the form with which we want them to write.

The stickers are really not that fabulous - they consist of only a few designs repeated several times (stars, letters, cat, dog). They seem like an afterthought, so I don't mind, but be warned.

Some of the sections were a bit brief. There was little to do with each measurement section, so she burned through it in two sittings. But, she's prolific and begs to do her "work".

Placement: This is tricky. The material does move from easier to harder, except what I noted about reading, so I would be a little optimistic with your selection so that the material increases with your child and doesn't become too easy. I would pick the level true to your child's highest LEVEL rather than the grade they're in - not too easy, not too hard. A struggling 1st grade reader may need a K book, which will do more for them in terms of content mastery than this book, which assumes they've got it. Our older child has a learning disability, so I'm speaking from experience here - push too hard and too high of a level and they will become unmotivated and will just give up. I like this book because it builds on task sequencing, which I wish we had for our son; however picking the right level is critical. Not too hard! This should be fun and something they can succeed at so they want to do it!

If you are thinking about this book, here's what my thoughts were when picking this level: My 4 y.o. "preschooler" knows a good number of her sight words, all the letters, the names of the oceans and continents. So, I selected the 1st grade book. She is working in it without frustration, and that is the key. She seeks the book out and completes about 5-7 pages in a sitting. Do expect to sit with your child and work with them on some activities, but it should be without frustration. The reading in this book is not a perfect fit for us. She has trouble with sounding out words, and I don't want her to work beyond her comfort level, hence, I will be purchasing the K book as well. There was a lot of reading and writing in the reading section, and it required a child knew all 100 sight words from K, plus could sound out new words, and could form a complete sentence from information they read. Ultimately, I feel this book is absolutely consistent with the breadth of the 1st grade curricula, so should be appropriate for an average just finished K or just starting 1st child.

This kept my almost 6-year-old daughter busy for an entire 4.5 hour plane ride! She didn't even ask to watch the portable DVD that we lugged with us :-)