As part of my mission to nuture Mr Moo’s genius (which, naturally, he inherited from me!) so that he can grow up to earn billions and provide his loving mother with a lavish lifestyle, I bought a set of the Charley Harper Flash Cards and Floor Puzzles.
Charley Harper was an American Modernist artist who died in 2007 but who was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. I think that his drawings are really beautiful and are a lot more interesting that your typical children’s illustrations. The box of his flash cards contains 26 cards with each one depicting a letter of the alphabet together with a really beautiful illustration of a creature whose name begins with that letter, so A is for Ape, B is for Bird etc. They will have any toddler who is keen on wildlife delighted to learn to recognise the letters of the alphabet.
The flash cards also serve a dual prupose, flip them over and they make up two large floor puzzles, one puzzle is an abstract underwater scene while the other is a picture of vast collection of wildlife.
The flash cards come in a sturdy but attractive cardboard storage box so they don’t have to live scattered all over your baba’s bedroom floor! A box of cards is just £7.26 from Amazon.
