LeapFrogTag Junior Cars 2 Book

These LeapReader Junior books are a brilliant introduction to reading for your little one and will help encourage them to get excited about reading too. We have both the  LeapFrog LeapReader Junior Scout Book Pal  and  LeapFrog LeapReader Junior Violet Book Pal  for my son and daughter. I bought the Scout book pal and several of the books for my 2 year old son as he has been struggling with his speech and I thought that this reading system would help him along with more words. I'm pleased to say that I do think they have actually helped him although I do still need to encourage him to use the book pal as he loves sitting there just looking at the books without it too. I was so impressed with the Scout book pal that I bought the Violet book pal for my daughter for when she starts to read too.Cars 2 World Adventure LeapReader Junior Book:-Let me start by saying like other reviewers have expressed there isn't all that much to this book and there are better and more educational Junior books out there. That being said my son likes Cars and so enjoys reading it with his book pal even if the actual words are very limited within the book. The Cars 2 book is like the others in the range in that it is a thick paged board book style so really good for little hands and will also (and has in our house already!) take some bashing about too. Had I paid full price for this book I would have been very disappointed as other than the sentence on the first page and last page each double page consists of just one word (City, Mountains, Village, Coast, River and Desert). I do understand that it is aiming to teach places but even so I would have thought a bit more actual sentences would have been called for considering it's meant to be part of an introduction to reading. The interactive points are okay and when you put the book pal over Lightning and Mater it does speak in their voices but again I would have thought a bit more content would have been given. So do be aware of the limited content if ordering this book although if your little one is a fan of Cars then they will love it.The Book Pals:-The book pals are identical apart from the colours and one being called Violet and the other Scout. I love that you can personalise Violet and Scout so that when you turn them on and off they say your childs name as this makes it feel like they are actually talking to your little one and immediately you can see it encourages them to use Violet and Scout. The books are very easy to load and unload once you download the Leapfrog Connect to your computer and I have done this several times now (because of the small memory on both of the book pals). Both the Scout and Violet book pals come with a USB lead and to connect them to your computer you remove the battery cover which is where both the batteries are stored and the USB connection is. You don't need a screwdriver to open them either as you can open them with a 1p coin just as well. Scout and Violet are very easy to hold for little hands and along with their main power button they also have a volume button too. Scout and Violet are the same size and both measure approx 10cm high by 6cm wide and 6cm deep at their tummy which is their widest point and they have been very cleverly designed to fit into your little ones hand. Your little one doesn't need to swipe them across any writing for them to read it and they just need to tap or touch the writing and both will read the whole paragraph or sentence. The LeapReader Junior book pals and books are a really good introduction to reading for your little one and I would definitely recommend them if you are thinking about them. I have managed to get most of the range at less than the normal full price by keeping an eye out for price drops on Amazon and with it being quite a big range it certainly is worth keeping tabs and taking advantage of price drops when they happen.

It's a lot more basic than I was expecting it to be, but my children did like touching the tag pen to the book for the sound effects. I would have liked more of the story written down so they can follow it with their pen. Some of the pages only had a single word on, which I wasn't anticipating. We got it for a good price so can't really complain, but my kids aren't really that taken with their tag reader as a whole - they seem to prefer the Innotab 2 tablet they were given at the same time by their grandparents (d'oh!) which does have a story feature and plays games.

Toddler loves it because it's got mcqueen in lol but as far as these books go it's not very interactive in my opinion

My little boy loves this book but I don't think its as good or as educational as the cars shapes book so would recommend that one more. It also doesn't have as many sounds as the cars shapes book

My little boy is 3 and had a tag reader for Christmas. He loves this book being a huge Cars fan. Great gift would recommend.

Book is a bit boring

Brum

These are bigger then the pack of 7 books and brilliant for little ones, Witt the leapfrog tag junior it reads along for your child and make story time so much more fun. I'm so happy with these :)