bigflat

high quality, sturdy, educational., 12 Mar 2014

My 2.5 year old loves this book - especially the caravan where there is an extra door inside to the toilet with someone on the throne. Lots of great picks of vehicles with double flap e.g. bin lorry first opens to see rubbish inside and them behind that is a view of it at a landfill site tipping out the rubbish.
Overall it has been in high demand at bedtime and has expanded is vocabulary considerably.

However, its quite different to reading a story in the sense that there is some text but a lot more time is required explaining things and making brum noises etc. The text is good but probably slightly advanced for a 2.5 year old. Subsequently bought many others in this series… Read more

gorgeous to look at, fast, responsive., 12 Mar 2014

Stunning looks, controller is a bit more plasticky though. Guzzles batteries as expected. Main downside is that because the wheel ground clearance is low and tyre profile shallow, it does not run very well on anything but the smoothest of pavements or roads. Mainly an indoor toy.

super accurate transcriptions, 12 Mar 2014

I cannot fault the transcriptions. Seems really high quality and accurate. Fun to learn from. Obviously the music itself is more obscure preliminary versions of things that wouldn't ordinarily be released but they are very interesting insights into the process and development of his song writing.