My First Book Of Mazes

By Kumon Publishing

Book Overview

Kumon Basic Skills Workbooks ensure that children master pencil-control skills with ease so that they love learning independently. Everything in our Basic Skills Workbooks - from the sturdy paper to the engaging content - is designed with the best interests of your child in mind.

This book gives your child the opportunity to develop their manual dexterity and pencil-control skills by tracing lines through mazes following clear directional indicators. Mazes allow your child to draw creatively and thereby practice the pencil skills necessary for good handwriting, This practice will also help your child acquire the ability to concentrate, which is a crucial study skill.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4774307092
• ISBN13: 9784774307091
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Kumon Publishing North America
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

More Marvelous Mazes

This book is pegged for children ages 3 - 5, and that seems about right. My three year old son had a blast working these delightful (and sometimes challenging) mazes. There are 80 mazes in the book, and there is a certificate of achievement at the back of the book. Highly recommended.

My 3 year old LOVED this book!

We have many of the Kumon workbooks and love them all, but this one is my son's favorite. It's perfect for 3 year olds. It starts with very simple mazes and then each progressive maze gets a little bit harder. When we first got the book and I looked towards the end of this book, I thought there was NO way my son could do this at three years old. . .but the book gradually increases the difficulty level so slowly that it WORKS! This is the one workbook that my son BEGGED to do and would do three or four pages at a sitting! And now he's on the next "Amazing Mazes" book in the series.

My little boy loved this book!

Kumon's MY FIRST BOOK OF MAZES is a wonderful introduction to mazes for children. They recommend this book for a child aged 3-4-5...well, I would find it hard to believe a 3 yr. old could do some of these mazes! My son is 8 and he had lots of fun with this book. Some were very easy, but some were challenging. Note the cover art is nothing like the inner art. The inner art is beautifully done, with the even page mazes up to page 28 being softly colored 3-D looking mazes of city streets, a forest, a farm a zoo, a garden, a racetrack, etc. The odd numbered pages have mazes in black and white and are flat, in various creative designs, and are more challenging than the 3-D style mazes. Mazes #29 on are of animals: work your way through a soccer playing fox, a doggie waiter, a pig out shopping, a lion king...very fun! The animals are done in black and white with colorful backrounds. A very nice book printed on heavy paper, nothing cheap and junky in the feel at all. I have heard of someone who had their child move a counter or plastic chip along the maze to find the way through, and then have them go again with the pencil or crayon. This prevents frustration with erasing because of wrong turns, and aids in remembering how you went through with the chip. When your child has done this book, they would probably enjoy Kumon's AMAZING MAZES, similar to this one, but a bit harder. These would make great gifts for a child who has everything. Kumon has many many wonderful workbooks that any child would love...check them out! Books on cutting, pasting, crafts, numbers. Enjoy!

Kids love it

We got the Upper Case Letters book first and the kids really seemed to enjoy going the work. They really love doing this book. It's more like play then school work for them. Our "I can't do it" 4 year old doesn't want to put it away! The progressive hardness of the mazes is so gradual the kids don't have trouble transitioning through it. The patterns, colors and characters are VERY kid friendly and easy on the eyes. The whole Kumon system really has me impressed!

Great for learning to Write

This book gave my 4 yr old daughter the confidence to start deliberately moving the pencil in a certain direction. Since she started these mazes she's more comfortable tracing letters and learning to write her name.