( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 26 2009
Yikes, this is a poor quality item. Penguin should be ashamed to have this item represent the Grosset & Dunlap brand in the marketplace. The stickers are backed with such poor quality low-tack adhesive that they curl up and are useless as soon as you remove them from the die-cut. In fact, I'd say this product is designed only to separate Granparents and parents from their money. Obviously, this item was never intended for actual use.
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Posted: Sep 13 2007
This book is an excellent concept but a heartbreaking failure. Your child may assemble trains of stickers by placing stickers of engines, coaches and freight cars on pages showing tracks and colorful interesting backgrounds. The stickers curl. They will not stay on the pages. Some scenes cross the binder leading to awkward placement of stickers across it. The book cover deceives. The stickers are bordered in white. My child was trilled to have this book, but after several hours, it was trash. This is a shameful production of a great idea.
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 26 2006
We have enjoyed books illustrated by Edward Miller. His drawings are informative yet playful, and this sticker book has page after page of his scenery. The trains are provided by the imagination of your child as he builds it car by car from the stickers in the center of the book. The printing is excellent quality with multicolor smooth pages. This is a step above a coloring book in terms of page quality and "story". Usually I am not a fan of sticker books. Typical sticker books have a specific spot on the page where one unique sticker must be placed. This sticker book is not so limiting. Each page has a scene and an engaging sentence or two. For example "All kinds of cars make up a freight train--boxcars, flatcars, tank cars, refrigerator cars. Load'em up at the loading dock!" is the sentence for a freight yard with three loading docks. Your train loving child will need very little encouragement to build several freight trains at each dock from the stickers. If the child doesn't read, the illustrations are excellent at conveying a story that isn't finished until a few stickers are placed on the page. After those stickers are placed the story is exciting enough that your little one may feel compelled to repeat it to you more than once. Reusable stickers? As noted by others the back cover claims the stickers are reusable and the paper feels like it is slick enough to allow the stickers to be recycled--but if your child is like mine those finger prints on the adhesive portion will quickly limit the useful life of the sticker. For the price, you will be satisfied with the quiet time it provides--even if the stickers don't get reused. On the next big trip in car or plane (or train), put away the DVD mind numbing drivel and let your child populate a world of his own within the covers of this little book.
