The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A BabyLit® Colors Primer

Let me preface this by saying that we own every single one of the BabyLit books, and we love them. This one, however, is majorly flawed.I do like the idea of the book-- The Wizard of Oz is a colorful book, and perfect for teaching colors. The execution, however, was iffy. Unlike the other books (for example, "A Christmas Carol" or "Alice in Wonderland") where there is a picture on one page and a descriptor on the opposite page (e.g. "Yellow Teapot" opposite a teapot), this book features a two-page spread for each "color". This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that most pages have more than one color prominently featured!(Side note: I do understand that doing a page entirely monochromatic is boring, and that is not what I am suggesting. But featuring only TWO colors prominently on a page makes it confusing about which color is supposed to be the focal point. Moving on...)Specific example: Check out the "Look Inside" option on Amazon. The first page is "Blue" and features pictures of Kansas (haha), rain... and three yellow and black sunflowers. See my problem? This continues throughout the book, on the "Black" page (green socks with black stripes), the "Yellow" page (pink poppies and black signs) and almost every single other page. Not ideal when you're trying to use this book to teach colors.Secondly, this book has some obscure WoO references, and tries to include a LOT of obscure items from the book. Your average reader (never mind your average toddler) will have no idea what "Kalidah" is, but that's here. As are other things like "daisies and buttercups" (included on the "Tan" page-- which also has lots of purple), the "golden cap" (on the "Purple" page, with lots of other gold items like a moon and stars), and a wildcat (on the "Red" page) are also sprinkled throughout, giving the impression that whoever included these items was either attempting to include WAY too many plot points, or find items of a certain color (even though they don't match the color they are listed under-- ARGH). They would have done better had they stuck to the Alice/Christmas Carol format-- kept it more concise, closer to the core of the story, and less confusing for little ones.Sorry, JA & AO-- not a fan of this one at all.

BabyLit PRIMERS are primers. Presumably BabyLit Story Books are story books. This is a primer which is meant to teach.This focus is on colors such as red, silver, tan, purple, black, etc. It creatively embeds elements of The Wizard of Oz without trying to tell the story. This book is styled to group things from the novel that are the same color like the red apples of the trees and the red poppies. Again it has elements of the original story without attempting at all to tell a baby friendly version. Each 2 page spread focuses on one color.I love these! They are exactly what I expected. The only issue with this one for me is that tan has a lot of tan and purple so it's not clear.

Baby lit books are our all time favorite books! They are small books, but that does not underestimate the goodness inside. We have ordered just about all of the baby lit books and love to swap them out during seasons and holidays. I also love that they have different primers and different types of learning for your little one. These books are great gift ideas, there are a lot of genres to choose from. The artwork and colors are bright and vivid, very pleasant to look at. The mommy and the teacher in me loves and approves these books!

The illustrations are adorable and it is a fun way to share about colors and a elements of a favorite story. I say "elements" because it doesn't really tell the story of the Wizard of Oz, but different items from the book are grouped together. Even with that though, it is a fun book to read with my son.

I don't like that there is a lot of red all over the other color pages. But otherwise good! Also my pages were stuck together when I received it so for a minute it looked like there was no "blue" and that Dorothy wasn't featured. Haha

The illustrations are adorable and right on point with what I would expect from Adams. My only let down was the pictures are based on the book more than the movie. Since I am unfamiliar with the book I wasn't expecting it. Still cute though

In good shape and shipped quickly!

We love all the books in this collection. This is a great primer for little ones and the illustrations are so he catching. My son loves reading this to his younger brother and it easily keeps both of their attention.

I didn’t like the book at all. It has nothing to do with the wizard of oz and the vocabulary is stupid. Gave it away to charity

Great book, great quality, great story !

Estos libros son un encanto. Hay que entender que todos no son como libros tradicionales. Este trata de enseñar colores a los pequeños de una forma original. Es importante reconocer que eso es su fín, y no contar la historia. Obviamente como consigue dicho objetivo es con elementos del argumento del Mago de Oz. Las ilustraciones son ideales y a mi hija de un año le encanta.

My two year old loves this book, especially the witch! Lots of pictures to talk about with my toddler

My son love the colours