My First.....

Advantages: Introduces children to shapes.
Disadvantages: Not the most exciting of books compared to recent publications on the same theme.

...'. - Price - My copy is a hardcover, ISBN: 0-19-910482-4 and was originally £5.99 but is currently available from amazon for £1.03. - Other books in the series - My first ?. ~ alphabet book ~ counting book ~ book of colours ~ book of time ~ book of opposites - Verdict - I bought this book in the late 90s and I still use it today with younger children, alongside the more recent, brightly coloured publications. As stated earlier, it certainly does what is intended and is a good, basic introduction to 2D shapes for children. N.B. This review also appears on dooyoo....

neenn 30.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of My First Book of Shapes - Peter Patilla

Unputdownable book for babies...!

Advantages: Entertains very young babies.
Disadvantages: No ties for cot.

...Prior to my sons arrival, I had heard quite a bit about ?black & white? books/high contrast images for babies, so decided to buy the ladybird cot book & see if the hype was true? Basically babies can, from a very young age, see & take note of high contrast images ? such as black & white. Many of these visual products for babies also include colours such as yellow & red. Such patterns can often be found on toys, play mats, cot mobiles etc. The Ladybird cot book is a concertina style book, which is made of padded fabric & unfolds to create a long panel of images. There are 5 panels/pages in total. Each panel features an image or pattern in black, white & yellow. One side has a train, wavy lines, a flower, & a checkerboard, while the other side features a snail, a house, a star, a car & a fish. All the images are very simplistic...

sambam000 22.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ladybird First Cot Book

First MyBook in my shelf

Advantages: large capacity, standby mode
Disadvantages: only USB

...This MyBook is the first largest capacity external drive I ever had. I have been saving some money for some quite time to finally purchase this product. The Look and Features MyBook from western digital has a very simple design, simillar to an average book from a library shelf with round front side. With black piano finish with overall look so simple and less futuristic design. MyBook Essential is one of the low-end products with minimal features. This external drive doesnt have an ON/OFF switch anywhere. The front side is just a line of LED for indicating that the device is turned on or read/write activities. The connectivity this drive uses only USB 2.0. with mini the only one mini-USB port at the back side and connected to a normal USB port of your computer. Performance The first thing to do when I opened the package...

sibibip 23.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of My Book Essential Edition 2.0 WDH1U10000 1 TB

Lord Of The Rings the first, book one

Advantages: once you get the boring stuff out of the way, the book is good
Disadvantages: too much description

...I am going to talk about the very first lord of the rings book, The fellowship of the ring part one. This book, has a great deal of adventure in, and doesn't lack in description. If anyone has read this book, im sure they would agree that this book may have a bit tooo much description in. Description is good, but when you get too explaining every blade of grass to the last detail you may get bored. Even though i wanted to quit reading it so bad, i kept going because i know it does get better. You go on this wonderful adventure with Frodo Baggins from Bag end. Along with Sam, his loyful companion. You meet loads of interesting characters on the way including, Tom who is like the god of all land, sea and sky in the area were he lives. And tom one day stumbles across the poor hobbits in a spot of bother and helps them out. You...

cliffo2000 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) - J. R. R. Tolkien

Great book for a young baby

Advantages: Inexpensive, fascinating for young babies
Disadvantages: Not machine washable

...If you're not a little baby, this looks like the world's least interesting book, but trust me - if you're a little baby it's brilliant! It has only 6 pages, made of cloth and filled with something that crinkles when you move it/chomp on it/wave it around! The first two pages have a repeated heart pattern and a picture of a daddy, the 2nd two pages have a different heart pattern and a picture of a mummy and the third two pages have a lovely bright yellow background and a picture of a baby. As you can see from the picture, they are simple, unsophisticated pictures - very basic and stylised, which makes them great for even very new babies to look at. They are done in black, white and yellow only, making them easy to see with young eyes. The book can attach to a car seat, pram or high chair using the strip of fabric and velcro attached...

Bitchqueenofneworleans 29.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Faces (Baby's Very First Book)

My Baby Book - A First Five Year Diary.

Advantages: Good for keeping memories
Disadvantages: Might forget to fill it in

...As I got to the end of my pregnancy, my Boss bought me a really good Baby Book. It?s one of the 5 year ones, with cute little bears on the front and back, and it was brightly coloured. The book was compiled and designed by Desmond Marwood and Illustrated by Patricia Ludlow. It was first published in 2001 by Brown Watson, reprinted twice in 2002, twice in 2003 and twice again in 2004. There are 48 pages in total. I?m not sure of the price because as I said, it was a gift. As the book is quite long, I?m not going to review the whole of it, I?m just going to review half of it. The book cover is shiny and seems to have some sort of padded covering, and the pages are coated too, which gives them a nice glossy finish. The book begins with a contents page. The font through out this book is Kristen ITC. There are six pictures...

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Review of Baby Record Book

A First Class Book and More

Advantages: Interactive, funny and fun
Disadvantages: Contents can be lost

...or Other Peoples Letters was the first in three postman stories following the character known as ?The Postman? or ?The Jolly Postman? as he delivers his letters to a variety of wonderful characters from popular fairy tales and children?s stories. The other books in this series are The Jolly Pocket Postman and The Jolly Christmas Postman, which are both based along similar lines. The authors of these great children?s books are a husband and wife team, Janet and Allan Ahlberg who worked together on a variety of children?s books until Janet sadly died in 1994. Allan generally wrote the books whilst his wife worked on the illustrations. Allan was born in 1938 and brought up by his adopted family in Oldbury and his wife was born a few years later in 1944 in Leicester, marrying in 1969. Their first books together were an immediate success; ?The old...

elfbwillow 30.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Jolly Postman - Allan Ahlberg

FIRST DIRECT - THEY ARE FIRST IN MY BOOK

Advantages: low overdraft rate, great internet access
Disadvantages: none so far

...title is something different, do not call it "First Direct passwords"!! Just to stop anybody else from finding it. CHEQUEBOOK AND CARD +++++++++++++++++++++ You receive a chequebook and cheque/debit card. The card is a switch/maestro/cirrus card and can be used abroad. It guarantees cheques for up to £100. They will all be Chip & Pin in due course. The chequebook is standard, has 25 cheques in it, 5 paying-in slips and transaction pages at the front, if like me, you like to keep a running balance of your account. (But then, I am an Accountant!). You are also provided with a separate paying-in book. OVERDRAFT ++++++++++ The fee-free overdraft of £500 is great, however, do not exceed this limit, as you will be charged a £30 fee, then £25 for each day that the account is overdrawn. I found out to my cost when a direct...

kismet 03.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of First Direct Accounts

Interactive books for growing minds

Advantages: Helps with daily skills; numbers; colours and alot more
Disadvantages: None

...Books are great whether you are young or old, and they are a superb way of bonding with your little ones even if they can not read. My little boy, who is 11 months old, can not read or speak as yet, but certainly loves story time. He really enjoys being read to as well as being able to partake by turning the pages himself. He also loves sitting on his own simply turning the pages and looking at the pictures, whether the book is the right way round or not. As a result of his love of books I invested in some fabric books for babies and toddlers. They are a fantastic invention, as they offer a variety of different textures for your baby to explore and more importantly your little one won't be able to eat it - suck on it, chew on it maybe - but definitely not eat it.. So when I came across 'My First Activity Book' I did not hesitate to...

A1973 28.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of My First Activity Book - Read & Play

Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs
Disadvantages: large size (price?)

...Apple mac-books, where to start... ok, so to start, it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are. this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop. The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop. The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is...

pieceofmind 29.04.2008 (30.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT