eeBoo: Animal Village Create A Story Pre-Literacy Cards, 36 Cards Included in The Set, Encourages Imagination, Creativity and Story-Telling, for Ages 3 and upThe Forest Stewardship Council

I bought this for my sons 5 & 8. We play this a couple of different ways. One way is for each person to take a card and make up a story about that card, and then the next person takes a card and builds onto the story. You also can lay all the cards out and build a sequential story. This card set is excellent for language development, memory recall, preparing for creative writing, as well as sparking the child's imagination!I could also see this as an excellent tool for play therapy, allowing the child to use the cards to talk about their feelings or perhaps what's going on in their life.Both of my sons truly enjoy playing with these, and it's fun to see where their imaginations lead their verbal storytelling. This set is fine for either boys or girls, it is gender neutral. The illustrations are colorful and engaging, showing many different characters, but at least three cards with the same character to allow a good story flow throughout the entire set. A few cards show all of the characters together doing different things, as is show on the box cover. A great price for a great purpose!

This is the second storytelling card set I've purchased. This one is way cuter! The cards are lovely, great artwork and very interesting pictures that inspire more creative stories and challenge my kids more than the other set we tried (which were standard princess, rainbow, castle, - too predictable). My 3 yo and 5 yo have really loved using them to tell stories on their own and collaboratively, and use them to play school. Great gift idea for 5yo age group.

My 7 year old likes to shuffle the cards and we pick the next one on top and have to make up a story. It's great for imagination, critical thinking to come up with the next part so it fits in with the story, lots of giggles, and language development. We received a deck as a gift once and now have all the decks. It's a great learning tool and fun game!

This was a gift for my 5-year old granddaughter - and it was quite the hit with great graphics and interesting animal characters. It's had durability too, since for the past 6 months when she visits overnight it's still a treasured pastime as we go through the cards and make up new stories about the now familiar characters. It's now a bedtime tradition and she seems to look forward to this even more than reading a story to her. Am about to order another set - the circus one.

I bought these originally because I really love Stephanie Graegin's illustrations and love games from this genre.The cards really are beautiful as expected and strudy, but it is hard to make a comprehensive story out of them. Many of them relate onlyloosely to one another. You can still talk about what you see in every card but not exactly tomake a story.

These are super cute! Just felt a little bit young for my school-age kids. (I didn't read the description very well. There are ZERO words, just cute little pictures to tell stories off of)Cute and sturdy - just not for us.

I was really excited for this set as my 3.5yr old is obsessed with hearing us make up stories and she is just starting to participate in telling them as well. Unfortunately this just isn't what I had imagined when I ordered it.I thought there would be more general cards of actions such as animals eating, swimming, walking, and cards of various settings such as playgrounds, etc that would allow you to come up with a variety of stories easily. Instead there seems to be a theme to the cards and a more obvious standard order to pull them together. My daughter hands me random cards and I certainly feel like I'm doing a great job of telling a story and pulling things together. But even with that it is really hard to go "off script" and have it be really different than the last one.This might be better purely for a young kid to learn how to tell a story then a way of injecting some spice into your creativity as a parent to tell stories. I had thought I would be buying more sets and mixing them together, but I can see that mixing sets would be impossible.A good idea, just not what I was looking for.

As a play therapist, the quality is great. I use this often with young and older clients. It’s a great way to engage and connect. Love it and have recommended to other colleagues and parents.