Beautiful good quality alphabet *puzzle* that will appeal to those who like natural wooden toys...the background is made of untreated/unpainted wood, the letters are cut out of wooden board (good European quality...I've only seen this in European puzzles), drawings are nice and look well attached to the wooden letters. The puzzle is a bit larger than standard (standard being about A4 page size) Mellisa and Doug puzzles...this is about 1.5 times larger. Yes, you may have to answer lots of questions regarding pictures which maybe hard for a toddler to make out...but this toy is a great conversation piece. I put *puzzle* in qoutes because at the time that toddler is interested in letters (~2.5 years for us) this is a very easy puzzle. This maybe a plus because toddler can focus on letters and images not on puzzle. I would buy this for a younger toddler (18 months+) as puzzle, and use it later as a material for learning letters. I wish someone would redesign this into a bilingual puzzle (English/Polish for us) where the images/objects depicted would be picked such that they represent the letter in both languages! Some drawings, in fact, work this way already, but others don't. I picked this puzzle over similar puzzle with sounds and I happy about this simpler choice.
Beautiful good quality alphabet *puzzle* that will appeal to those who like natural wooden toys... the background is made of untreated/unpainted wood, the letters are cut out of wooden board (good European quality... I've only seen this in European puzzles), drawings are nice and look well attached to the wooden letters. The puzzle is a bit larger than standard (standard being about A4 page size) Mellisa and Doug puzzles... this is about 1. 5 times larger. Yes, you may have to answer lots of questions regarding pictures which maybe hard for a toddler to make out... but this toy is a great conversation piece. I put *puzzle* in qoutes because at the time that toddler is interested in letters (~2. 5 years for us) this is a very easy puzzle. This maybe a plus because toddler can focus on letters and images not on puzzle. I would buy this for a younger toddler (18 months+) as puzzle, and use it later as a material for learning letters. I wish someone would redesign this into a bilingual puzzle (English/Polish for us) where the images/objects depicted would be picked such that they represent the letter in both languages! Some drawings, in fact, work this way already, but others don't. I picked this puzzle over similar puzzle with sounds and I happy about this simpler choice.