Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet Letters Wooden Puzzle (52pc): Reading Educational Toy for 2nd Grade

Colorful and helpful way to help a child who already knows her capital letters figure out which lower case letters go with those upper case letters. Might be nice if there was a sound version.

Love it....but the font makes it kind of hard for example N & Z look extremely similar and the lower case N could easily b "u" . The lower case "p", "d" and "b" are all exactly same size abs shape just different colors.

Ill Defined Letters, Poor Quality.d Letters, Low Quality! I Have Many Melissa N Doug Products I Am Happy With But This Is not One. Save Your Money

Great for quality and educational. My two year old loves this puzzle.l because it has both capital letters and small letters. he quickly learned both. The only thing is that the letters a flat which I thought would be a problem but it's not for little fingers.

We got this for our 19month old when his next sibling was born. He become OBSESSED with letters (and later with numbers, also first wood numbers from this store). Before second birthday he know alphabet forward and backward, small and big letters (we called them back then baby and mama/daddy letters), before third he was able to read names of the shops, articles' names in superstore, book titles. At age 4 he read himself simple books like Piggy and Gerald series. Now, not 6 yet he reads books (level 3 and higher) and enjoy math from 4th grade textbooks and Alan Turing's math riddles for 8+. He is in French immersion now and we do not need to worry that he ever would have any problem with English reading/writing. We had to buy his siblings separate alphabets (and extra numbers sets), it was ONLY toy he'd never let to touch anyone! His next sibling follows in his footsteps, learning quickly (she is sport type, not as much bookworm like her bro but also loves books). Our alphabet puzzles are played constantly from 4.5 years, last time actually yesterday. We still didn't lost even one letter from sets as it was the "most precious" thing for our kids. Toy LOVED by all our kids and both parents. Planning to buy soon the next one for younger cousin. Picture our 22month old back then with his most beloved toy.

We got this for our 19month old when his next sibling was born. He became OBSESSED with letters (and later with numbers, also first wood numbers from this store). Before second birthday he knew English alphabet forward and backward, small, and big letters (we called them back then baby and mama/daddy letters), it helped him to learn another one too. Before third he was able to read names of the shops, articles' names in superstore, book titles. At age 4 he read himself simple books like Piggy and Gerald series. Now, not 6 yet he reads books (level 3 and higher) and enjoys math from 4th grade textbooks and Alan Turing's math riddles for 8+. He is in French immersion now and we do not need to worry that he ever would have any problem with English reading/writing. We had to buy for his siblings the separate alphabets (and extra numbers sets), it was ONLY toy he'd never let to touch anyone! His next sibling follows in his footsteps, learning quickly (she is sport type, not as much bookworm like her bro but also loves books). Our alphabet puzzles are played constantly from 4.5 years, last time yesterday. We still didn't lose even one letter from sets as it was the "most precious" thing for our kids. Toy LOVED by all our kids and both parents. Planning to buy soon the next one for younger cousin. Picture our 22month old back then with his most beloved toy. I had to re-write his review as I made horrible amount of mistakes (English is just one of my secondary languages) - things my kids will never do after they adventure with this puzzle

It’s ok, I don’t like the lower case “i” or “j” or “q”

I bought these for my classroom. The children love them .

This has been great for my 2 year old grandson who is learning his letters

My 3 year old grandson is obsessed with the alphabets and he has lots of fun with this.

My son spilled water on the board and it started to bend into this c shape. It was quite disappointing.

What a disappointment! The letters are oddly shaped. For example 'd' has a very short stick and the 's' is more of a blob than a letter. The base is also very poor quality, the slots aren't deep enough for the letters to really stay and we noticed that it had warped the same day we received it. Needless to say we returned this puzzle.

Great for eye hand coordination, sequencing, alphabet recognition, fine motor, bilateral coordination, and etc. activities to use this puzzles are endless. Id do wish Melissa and Dough could come up with a clear covering/lid for all there board games/puzzles that include pieces so that the pieces are safe and secured after each use especially for traveling therapists. I hope this product last me a long time and I don lose any pieces.

Absolutely the best toy! We bought it for our son when he was 18months old. Now he is 2years and he knows all alphabet, big and small letters, started to spell simple words like mama or daddy and he is obsessed with this toy and generally with letters and numbers. He has also Melissa&Doug's shape sorting clock and can count until 20 now. We are looking now for See & Spell Learning Toy, Magnetic Chalkboard and Dry-Erase Board, ABC Picture Boards, Add & Subtract Abacus and magnetic letters and numbers in Canadian shops, because ordering it from USA is a bit too expensive. He has never enough letters and numbers, and Melissa&Doug toys are the best! Recommended for everyone!

This was one of my daughter's favorite puzzles, so I recently ordered it for our grandkids. I am disappointed that the picture online was photoshopped (You can clearly see if you zoom in on the S) and the S on the actual puzzle looks like a blob. How will this help children learn this letter? Other than that, I think it is a great puzzle.

My grandson loves it, but it can be a little frustrating because the letters don't have the knobs to pick them up. Otherwise great puzzle.

Puzzles isn't the same as the one pictured. The s's look nothing like an s. Feels cheap.

My granddaughter loves this and so do I. I have recommended Doug and Melissa toys to all of my friends and family.

Love this puzzel, both my 2 and 5 year old play with it and they love it during quite time and before bed. my 5 year old learnt his abc's and is now using this to help his baby sister.

Like that it helps teach kids there numbers, but the kids have trouble with matching the colors and numbers together