My two-year-old twins love this book. No, make that they LOVE this book. They ask me to read it to them every night. They don't get to hear it every night (they, and daddy, need variety) but they do get to hear it once or twice a week.

It's not just Elmo, who they love. They have other Elmo books and they think those are okay but not in the same league as this book. Maybe it's the puppy. Maybe it's daddy's voices and the way I read it (you can't give Mr. Fuzzle the same voice as Elmo, after all). Whatever it is, "Elmo's New Puppy" gets two little thumbs up in my house.

Got this for my now 18 mo old toddler a couple of months ago and he can relate to all of the stuff Ernie and Bert are shown doing in this book -- he just loves it! He often picks it up and looks through every page by himself during the day. Ernie gets dressed, goes out to play and meets his friends, takes turns, and then takes a break for a snack with Bert at the end of the Book. He likes to act out that part to me, as well as the getting dressed :-) My son is a big big Ernie fan after watching the very cute 1 2 3 count with me DVD a few times a week :-) So it absolutely fits the bill for an engaging board book.

This book is a great book to teach kids what baby animals are which and what they are called. My mom used to read it to me and i loved it beacuse of the great pictures of the animals and how it discrbed every one.

Hide-and-Seek Camping Trip is a interactive children's book. The main characters in the story were Ernie and Bert from the well-loved children's show "Sesame Street". They go on their adventure through the woods. The book is fully furnished with peek holes that bring you to the next page. On one page it's a tree and on the next it's the horns of a deer. It's an easy reading story that your children will love and enjoy!

My daughter, who is now 21 years old, loved this book as a child. We are purchasing it for her nephews. She learned to tie her shoes, button her buttons....all at the age of 2 and because she truly wanted to do it herself.

I found this book extremely easy for my child to read. It's all in rhymes so it makes her reading time fun. She loves to play around the house and pretend she's all the things that Fred becomes. Once again, great book!

Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.

To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Make Believe with the Muppet Babies -- A Storybook was one of her picks.

The delightful book has three stories in it, each featuring one of the Muppet babies. In the first, Beyond the Broccoli Forest, Baby Piggy is getting ready for lunch. She has a plate of steaming broccoli, something she had enjoyed the day before. But today, well, she would like something else. Their Nanny has just served all the babies and they are told to eat up everything. Baby Piggy decides to pretend she is very small and wander amongst the food. During her game, she shares food with the other Muppet babies so each gets more variety. Soon, they have finished and everyone enjoys chocolate pudding for dessert.

In the second story, In Search of the Great White Soap, it is time for the nightly bath. Baby Kermit goes last. He likes his bath. He gets in with a new bar of soap and his toys and starts having a ball. But he loses the soap, and plays an adventure game of searching for it. Eventually the soap is totally melted, and Nanny tells him he is clean and should come out now.

In the third story, Baby Fozzie's Wish, Baby Fozzie gets his wish at bedtime to become the world's funniest bear. Soon, he is tired of this game and wants to go to sleep, but his audience won't let him alone. The Wish Fairy grants him a second wish to undo the first wish, and he is soon fast asleep.

One of the things I always liked about this book is that it encourages children to see life as a great adventure, full of daring and fun. The book also gives them a lot of control over this adventure, and sets physical limits without any mental ones.

Now, if your family is like most, you don't have a Nanny. Why would you want to read a book about one? That's part of the fun. Just like Peter Pan and Nana, you and your child can pretend you have a Nanny. (Of course, if you do have a Nanny, the Nanny will love being included in a bedtime book.) Or Mom and Dad can have fun pretending to be Nanny, just while reading this book. I used to try my "female" voice to make reading the book funnier for our daughter.

Many children enjoy having pretend experiences, and this book puts that in the most positive light possible. With that experience, future play can be positive as well.

After you and your child have finished enjoying this book, I encourage you to come up with your own stories about pretend games involving other daily activities. Brushing hair or teeth are possibilities, as is getting dressed in the morning. You'll enjoy being a parent more, and be a better one, if you have more fun with your child in this way.

Light up the day and night with imagination!

The book was very well made and designed. I love the movie MUPPETS FROM SPACE, it's one of my favorites. All of the books based on the movie MUPPETS FROM SPACE are great! I love them all!

My little girl loves this book! This book features Cookie Monster as he prepares for a dinner party for some of his friends. The story is told in rhyme and it's full of pictures of Sesame Street characters. There are a few "interactive" parts whre Cookie Monster addresses the reader. This is destined to become a quick favorite.

My daughter loves this book! Grover shows your child 'resting places' for different body parts (thumb, hands, nose, etc) and invites you child to try them. Our daughter learned her body parts this way, but still wants to read the Grover book. Fun and educational, this was one of the best gifts my daughter received on her first Birthday. It is hard to find books that she really likes, this one is a total winner.