Todd and his friends are always up for fun and learning. Every page includes interactive elements like pull tabs, pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, and touch-and-feels.
Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered and The Frugal Book Promoter and a chapbook of poetry called Tracings Published by LB Kids, an imprint of Little Brown Co., this colorful book includes pop-ups (my perennial favorite from childhood), little pull tabs that make Todd's dog Benny pull him on his skateboard, and interactive spots like a spotted cat with a feely body. Even the cover has puffy, plasticy balloons to feel. What I liked best about this book, though, is it distributed the really fun things like hammering and camping out between the boys and the girls. No type-casting here. At $9.99 this would be an inexpensive little birthday party gift, but if your child's crowd spends a bit more you could also pick up a Who's Your Best Friend? or a Lights Out, Todd sticker book. The ISBNs on these are 0316057061 and 0316057045 respectively. Both utilize the same artwork--simple, kid-arresting primary colors. Let's Play Together! Adults and children. This book--and Toddworld companions-- will help us do it ----------------------------------------------------------------- (Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first literary novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards and Harkening, a collection of stories, has won three. She is also the author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't. She is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of two granddaughters who are still enthusiastically testing this great little book.)
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