Word World: The Train Escapade

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Product Description ------------------- *National Parenting Publication Award (NAPPA): Gold Winner 2011* Welcome to WordWorld, the first preschool series where words are truly the stars of the show! Come along for an adventurous romp into a colorful, vibrant world of words with the lovable, legible WordFriends, animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are! The WordFriends go on comic adventures and face challenges that can only be resolved with the right word. That word is built letter by letter, sound by sound, during the funky Build a Word! song at the end of every episode. Once the word is built it morphs, or comes alive into the thing it is! Word building reinforces the pre-reading concept that letters (and their sounds) make words, and that words have real meaning...and power. The series also introduces literacy concepts that preschoolers will encounter as they become readers, such as sounding out letters and rhyming. But most of all, WordWorld helps children get excited about reading and see words as their friends. Includes these episodes: Never Too Many Oo s: When the two letter O s in Monkey s roof blow away in the wind, it s up to Duck to hunt down the /oo/ sound and fix the roof before it rains. Can Kangaroo and Duck save the day? Ducks Hiccups: When Duck drinks down a glass of water too quickly, he gets the hiccups for the first time ever! His WordFriends try every trick in the book to help him, but which cure will work? Achoo!: Pig is ic to peaches! When Sheep brings Pig a big bag of peaches to make pies, Pig starts sneezing so much that he can t even tell Sheep what he really needs is a... a... apples. Get Well Soon Soup: When ant gets , Pig tries to take care of him by making his special Get-Well-Soon soup. It has all the letters in the alphabet in it, so Pig can build any word that ant needs to feel better. Review ------ In WordWorld, set in a lush landscape filled with funny barnyard animals, the messages are clearer: because each animal is graphically spelled out, kids can watch as the letters P-I-G form that porcine creature. Even the scenery gets in on the act- a barn, a tree, a splash in the lake. When animals take time to build a word (always a moment of great expectation and jubilation), you can actually witness the little wheels working in the viewers' heads. After just one viewing, a 4-year-old whose always struggled with her letters volunteered to spell a new word: B-O-X. Presents don't get any better than that. ----Entertainment Weekly