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HomeRoom DecorMelissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet Puzzle |
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 I love M&D but this is garbage. Jul 24, 2010
I love gifting Melissa & Doug products because they are handmade and such excellent quality. I never bother to read reviews for their products because I've come to expect that standard. However, I wish I had for this puzzle. The letters are thin, easily bent, and subpar quality. The plywood of the board is cheap and cracked in two places, and I don't blame Amazon as it was packaged with care. Curious, I turned it over and lo and behold, it was Made in China. I'm kind of ashamed to give this to my nephew, because it's so poor in quality. I do not recommend this purchase.
 very shallow pieces Jul 13, 2010
This puzzle is good from an educational standpoint; my 2 year old is learning both upper and lower case letters and enjoys holding and manipulating them individually. The letters are simply letters, rather than adorned with distracting images (although some letters, like lower case q, don't really look like the letters they are supposed to be). However, the puzzle pieces and the wells they sit in are very shallow. This makes it hard to keep everything in place unless the puzzle is held/carried perfectly horizontally. I'm also concerned that the letters will break before my newborn is old enough to play with them.
 Letters are not realistic Mar 09, 2010
I was very excited to get my son this puzzle to help him learn both the lower and upper case letters of the alphabet. However, some of the lower case letters do not look as I think they should. I should have paid closer attention to the picture of the puzzle before ordering it, but now that we have it I see that the lower case "q" and "a" look almost identical; the lower case "b" and "d" do not have long enough stems; and the upper case "N" is too fat. Also, the dots above the lower case "i" and "j" are too hard to distinguish. I love how there are pictures under the pieces. I just wish the letters had been carved better.
 These letters rock!! Feb 05, 2010
I would give this one six stars if I could. My girl's 20 mo's, and in the 2 months we've been playing with this alphabet she's learned an amazing amount. Plus, she LOVES it. She only knows a few of the letters by their actual names, but when she picks up almost every letter here she can state the picture associated with it. So, 'I' isn't 'I,' but "ice cubes," and W is 'watch,' etc. She's never even seen a jellybean, but she screams "jellybean!" when she grabs the J. Awesome. It's a great challenge for her little fingers too - her dexterity has improved from initially just slapping the letters down in the approximate region of where they belonged, to lots of twisting and turning to slot each one and now, finally, she can place them correctly about half the time. I love that the letters that could be symmetric, like the Z, aren't, and that the u and n are the same color - it's more interesting this way! Yes, the pictures underneath the letters are unusual... and I'd much rather use this opportunity to teach her what a quail is than have her know only the ubiquitous 'Queen' as her Q-word. I only gave three stars for durability because the letters are not appropriate for chewing upon. They're quite substantial dry, but need to be kept out of little mouths. Just another reason to play with this one together at first.
We are learning letters Feb 01, 2010
This is a great puzzle for learning the letters. I have three preschool age kids that all enjoy lifting the letters to look at the picture or my oldest can now place them in the correct spot. I purchased this one over some of the cheaper ones because these puzzle pieces are in the actual shape of the letter- something I think is important while learning the letters. Some of the others have the same whitespace shape all around. Also I like that both upper and lower case letters are next to each other to help with recognition... just somethings to keep in mind while your looking for alphabet puzzles.
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