Hi Moms, I bought my set for my 2 boys when the older one was in kindergarten. He will be in P6 in 2009. For the sake of testifying that the books had really been great to us, allow me to humbly share that my boy has made it to the top class in his level, and is in position 6 in his class. He will be awarded the Edusave Scholarship come Jan 2009. My younger boy will be in P4 next year, and he achieved 100 marks in his final yr Science exam, he is going to the second best class in his level.
I have been reading these TIMELIFE series books with them from day 1 I bought them, and we are still frequently leafing through them. I must say the books (all of them) are awesome! The illustrations are colourful and clear and very much self-explanatory even when you don't read the text. The children can understand the geez of the science or general knowledge concepts by looking at the pics. My investment in the books have really been well spent cos I believe my boys did gain alot of knowledge from these books as we poured over them through the 6 years. Though reluctant, we have decided to let these go in order to make way for 'older' books for them, as we have covered every page of all of the books.
I have 3 sets :
1. A CHILD'S FIRST LIBRARY OF VALUES; (Stories on moral values like kindness, friendship, generosity, selflessness, etc) Total of 16 books. Each book has an accompanying cassette tape which reads out all the stories. So you can hear the story telling skills and the dialogue of the characters in the story. All voices are caucasian sounding persons. Also come in total of 3 CDs for 15 stories.
2. A CHILD'S FIRST LIBARY OF LEARNING; Offers great general knowledge, facts and science information for the young minds (and older minds like ours too!) 25 Titles as follows:
HOW THINGS WORK
FLOWERS AND TREES
WIND AND WEATHER
THINGS AROUND US
ANIMAL FRIENDS
SCIENCE STARTER
GEOGRAPHY
INVENTIONS
FEELINGS & MANNERS
INSECT WORLD
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
MUSIC & ART
DANGEROUS ANIMALS
FAMOUS PLACES
SKY AND EARTH
PETS
WHEELS AND WINGS
ANIMALS AND ACTION
WILD ANIMALS
DINOSAURS
OUR BODIES
LIFE IN THE WATER
EVERYDAY LIFE
THINGS TO DO
SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS
ECOLOGY
3. EARLY LEARNING PROGRAM. 15 titles. Cover the following:
BASIC :
Alphabet/Reading
Numbers/Counting
Colours/Mixing
Time
ADVANCED:
Visual/Observation
Thinking/Imagination
Problem Solving
Social
Emotional
You can get more information from here :
http://www.etlhomelearning.com/main/en/products/productList.asp?age=Young%20Kids&programID=5
The above come with a shelf that was designed to hold these books. The shelf displays the colours of the books' spines and makes it very inviting to the children to want to take the books for themselves. (Well, it least it did for my boys!)
Those books listed in their website have been revised and I think they have added new interactive gadgets.
For kids who love reading with their parents, this is a very good set of books to read with them, bond with them and learn with them.
I am letting go of all 3 sets together for a very low price of S$600, this includes delivery right to your doorstep. Call me at 9012 6969.