Briar Patch Thomas and Friends ABC

Amazon.com With all the fun of the heartwarming characters from Shining Time Station, this ABC game not only encourages beginning game-playing skills (fairness, taking turns), it boosts important prereading skills like memory and matching. Pairs of cards are designed as simple, self-correcting puzzles: one cardboard piece might picture Percy, with his name below; its mate would feature a capital P, also with the word Percy below it. Children can play with the cards as puzzles, or there are three different versions of gameplay that involve matching and pairing the cards. The game works well in a one-on-one setting, but is equally useful--and more fun--with a handful of children. An average game takes about 10 minutes. --Julie Ubben From the Manufacturer Learning your A-B-C's is fun with Thomas and Friends! Self-correcting play pieces insure that there's only one correct match to each pair. Versions for both advanced and beginning players. Contains 26 interlocking game pieces. Thomas and Friends A-B-C is for 1 to 4 players, ages 3 to 6.