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User Submitted Melissa and Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet Reviews (cont...)Date: 2002-01-20 Great language toy My son was around 21 months when he knew his capital letters really well. At about two, I bought this puzzle, so he could learn the lowercase as well. Much to my surprise, he not only learned the lowercase letters quickly after playing the puzzle, but he quickly learned how to say all the pictures below the pieces, and says those words when he is doing another alphabet puzzle I have which has no pictures on it. He'll go to put the A in the non-picture puzzle, and say airplane or apple, which comes from the 'picture beneath' puzzle, like the one shown here. Obviously, he is learning language and letters all in one with this puzzle, or he wouldnt be associating the letters with words that start with that letter without seeing those pictures on the puzzle. I guess its a great memory aide, as well, for him to remember the pictures from the other puzzle that were associated with the letter. Great puzzle, and it IS his favorite, no doubt. The others he has enjoyed are the Alphabet Train and Number Train as well, made by the same company, and have the pictures below and on the puzzle piece. Well worth the price I paid for the hours we have played with them over the last month. Date: 2002-01-09 Just one glitch... I bought this puzzle because I thought it would be terrific, and for the most part it is. However, there's one thing that bothers me: many of the lower case letters are too similar! The a, p, d, q are virtually interchangable...very difficult for a small child to differentiate. If you can show the little one the very subtle difference between the letters it'd be fine..but for some children this would be very frustrating and NOT fun. Just a little caution. Otherwise, the puzzle is well-made and great! Date: 2001-12-31 can't go wrong with this! can't go wrong with this! Date: 2001-10-04 Finally a puzzle with both upper and lower case letters! This is a great puzzle. It has helped our 3 year old son begin learning his lower case letters. He knows the uppercase but now can see the difference on the same puzzle. He likes the puzzle so much we bought a second one for our niece. Date: 2001-05-24 Puzzle fun for everyone *** 2008 UPDATE to review below *** 7 years (and two additional children) later, we still have this puzzle, and it still gets used every week. My original (slight) concern for the durability has not come to fruition -- all of the pieces are still in excellent shape, despite being repeatedly stepped on, thrown, and even washed. It has shown its life beyond a puzzle, as the letters are now typically used to spell words. --------------------------------------------------------------------- In a nutshell, this is a *fantastic* puzzle, that will help your child learn upper and lower-case letters very quickly. We gave this puzzle to our daughter just before her second birthday (well, because daddy has issues dealing with waiting to give his little girl gifts...), primarily to encourage her problem-solving and spatial-relation skills (which girls, especially, need encouragement it), but also to teach her the difference between upper and lower case. Since she already recognized upper-case letters, we had hoped that over time, she would relate the letter pairings. We had not counted on 5 minutes, which is what it took for her to make the connection. Every letter became "big Like the other LC&I puzzles, it is a well-made wooden puzzle; however, due to the number and size of the pieces, the edges of the color on the pieces will show some wear relatively quickly (especially when given to a Basset Hound to play with).
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