It’s amazing how far technology has come with children’s books. We had the opportunity to review Poingo, the latest in interactive books for children 3 – 7, and we were pleased with the results. This review was a great way to promote Giggles & Sugar Kisses goal to promote reading in 2009. Our starter package contained: two books, Nemo and The World Of Cars, and the Poingo stick. Poingo is the pointer used to make the story come alive on various pages in the books.
I put the book to test with my nieces ages 3 and 7. The set is very easy to use. Poingo has a switch that you can move to the on and off positions and was ready to use immediately. The children were able to figure out the positions easily and loved moving Poingo across the pages. The 3 year old choose Nemo, which left the 7 year old with The World of Cars. Both books were entertaining, but The World Of Cars seemed to be the favorite. They enjoyed playing the games found on various pages as well.
One of the things that I liked about the games is that it allowed the children an opportunity to try again if they missed an answer. There was a response to tell them if they were right or wrong. The questions asked were easy to difficult depending on where you placed Poingo on the page. I felt the questions challenging. There was lots of sounds while moving the Poingo around the pages too.
My 16 month old grandson wanted in on the action. He loved the noises while moving Poingo. I wouldn’t recommending a child his age playing with the books alone, the pages can be torn easily.
Overall, I give Poingo 3 snaps and a booty shake. It definitely goes into Grandma’s bag. It’s a great entertainment activity for the kids and it would make a great birthday gift. I will be purchasing Hanna Montana and Cinderella to round out the set for my nieces when they visit.
Did I mention that these books would be great while you’re traveling with your child or on visits to Grandma’s. In addition to Nemo and The World Of Cars, Cinderella, The Lion King, Pooh’s Wishful Thinking and Sleeping Beauty are available. High School Musical and Hanna Montana will be available shortly.
One of our readers will be the winner of a Poingo starter kit. That’s right, you could be the lucky winner. Here’s how: Visit My Poingo and check out their site. Let us know which books interest you. We will randomly select a winner from the posts. For extra entries:
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This give away is open to US and Canada residents 18+ only, and will end February 20, 2009 at mid-night. Posts with invalid email addresses will be disqualified. Winner will have 3 days to claim their prize. Good luck!
My kids would love Finding Nemo & The Lion King.
Cars, Nemo, Lion King and Pooh would be the books that I’d chose because 4 my grandsons:)
Cars, Nemo, Lion King and Pooh would be the books that I’d chose because 4 my grandsons.
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My daughter would love Sleeping Beauty.
My girls would love “Sleeping Beauty”, but all of my kids would love the “Cars” book. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
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My two sons would really be in to the Cars and Nemo books! Thank you so much for the giveaway.
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My favorite books are Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I was glad to see the Disney Princess: Magical World will be coming out soon. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
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Cinderella & Pooh Bear would sure be favorites in our home!
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Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty would be great for my granddaughter. garrettsambo@aol.com
The Cars and Winnie the Pooh books interest me the most. Both have characters my kids love.
my girls would flip for the high school musical and hannah montana books.ashlyn@chuparkoff.com
I would love this for my 3 year old and she is obsessed with Nemo
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My kids would like the Cinderella, Nemo, and Lion King books.
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My daughter would like Cinderella and Cars!!
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The Cars would be the favorite here–hands down! The princess books would be perfect for my granddaughter as well. Thank you for the contest!
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Tristan’s favorites would be Cars and Lion King. Liz’s favorite would be Finding Nemo.
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The Lion King and Winnie the Pooh!
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In order my grandson would like CARS then NEMO then LION KING. He’d be in heaven!
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My son loves books so he would love all of them but since he is into Cars right now I think that would be his favorite. Thanks for the chance! justicecw@hotmail.com
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The Pooh and Lion King books interests me. Thanks for the giveaway!
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The Nemo looks great.
It’s all about ‘Cars’ at our house.
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We like Cinderella and Nemo!
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Cars, Lion King and Finding Nemo would make happy campers here.
I think my son would love Lion King or Pooh as well.
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Nemo and Lion King would both rock for my son!
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My son would love The Lion KIng book and this system. Thanks.
My cousin would probably like Pooh and Cars the best!
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My girl would love the Pooh book! Thanks!
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My kids would love this and they’d also love Pooh.
My littleone would LOVE this! Pooh and Lion King would be awesome!
My daughter loves Cinderella and I think she’d also enjoy Pooh’s Wishful Thinking.
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I really like the Cinderella book, Cars & Lion King!
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The Sleeping Beauty one looks like a lot of fun!
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I would love to win this for my kids, especially my three year old son. He loves the movie Cars so I would pick that book for him. Thanks for the chance to win this.
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The cars or the winnie the pooh would be neat. Thank you for the giveaway
we’d love the nemo book
We’d love the lion King book
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I have a little cousin in kindergarten who loves all of the Disney princesses and the Lion King and Nemo and she might even let her little brother borrow it for Cars. (If I win of course)
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I’d love to read Finding Nemo: Undersea Search.
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The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella books would be just perfect for my grandaughter.
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My niece and nephew, who I would love to win this for, love all things Disney. Their favorites are the Lion King and Finding Nemo.
Thanks for such a great giveaway.
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Love Nemo and this looks like something we could do together.
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I have 7 grand-children aged 7 years and younger. Any one of them would love to receive these books. Thanks for the contest.
My daughter would really enjoy the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella books. Can’t wait for the Princesses book to come out too.
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My kids love the Lion King and would love the book:)
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I have a boy and a girl so I’d probably go with Nemo. Thanks!
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Finding Nemo is a family favorite.
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My grandson also is a Cars fanatic and he would go crazy for this!
My son would LOVE this 🙂
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I like Finding Nemo and The Lion King.
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My son would most like Cars and Finding Nemo. Thanks.
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The Lion King is a huge favorite at our house. Thank you
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today i’d choose the nemo book for my grandson
I would love this for my 4 year old grandson
This would be an absolutely incredible gift for my neice! She has a delayed speech something or another… well, this would really help her sound out the words, plus it looks like so much fun! I’d have to go with the pooh book!
I would love this product. My daughter would love Hanna Montana and my son would like Winnie the Pooh.
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My daughter would love the Sleeping Beauty book!
My daughter loves Nemo, Mickey Mouse and the Cinderella books. THank you!
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My 2 older daughters would luv the Disney Princess Books, and my youngest, she would luv the Lion King book!
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Great giveaay, my kids would love Nemo.
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My daughter and son would love the Nemo book!!
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Nemo and Lion King would be my picks. Thanks!
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This is such a neat idea! I love innovative products. I’m super interested in Finding Nemo and Lion King. We love those movies in my household!
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We’d love the Nemo book!
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Cars and Finding Nemo would be the ones my nephew would really enjoy!
They have to travel here from another state about 3-4 times a year, sometimes more. Great for his car trip! Please enter me in your delightful drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
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I have a boy and a girl so I like unisex books like Nemo or Lion King. They’d both love one of these!
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I would love to win the Pooh book. My lil has so many Pooh things!
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I would love to win this for my granddaughter. When her mother was a little girl she loved to listen to books read to her . She had a mother goose reader and would sit there very still while she listened to books read to her. This would be great and I would select the cinderella book because this little special girl is my little princess.
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my son would enjoy the pooh book and the nemo book a lot.
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I think I like the Lion King books the best. Although my youngest absolutely loves Nemo and Cars. He’s a junkie!
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avery , our soon to be, 3 yr old would love sleeping beauty. i have to agree.
what a great learning device.
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Cinderella would be loved at our house. Thank you so much!
You can’t go wrong with The Lion King! We would definitely want that one. Thanks for the opportunity!
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This would be perfect for my daughter’s upcoming birthday. She loves princesses, so the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella books would be perfect. Thanks for the great giveaway!
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we would like the lion king book
My greatgrandson Alex is a Cars fanatic while greatgranddaughter Jaclyn loves Nemo.
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Cinderella and Sleeping beauty would be my little Granddaughter’s favorites!
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We would love any of the books! My daughter would love Sleeping Beauty and my son woul love Nemo
My daughter would love the princess books.
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I would like to win this for my 3 year old daughter. She loves Winnie the Pooh and the Princesses. Thanks.
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It’d be the Cinderella book for my daughter, as she loves her the most among Disney’s princesses.
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Myfave books are Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and HS Musical Yearbook
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My son would love the Cars book
Finding Nemo would definitely be the favorite among my great grandkids! Awesome giveaway!
pooh and lion king and the kiddos would love
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I really love Nemo, so does our little one. cdziuba@aol.com
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Probably would be the Cars book, or the Finding Nemo, we like both of those stories at our house!
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I think both my kids and I would like the Lion King Book it’s one of our favorite movies.
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My son loves Nemo! Thanks for the great giveaway!
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My kids would enjoy this. I like the Cars, Cinderella and Lion King books.
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Cars, Nemo, Lion King and Pooh would be the books that I’d chose because I have two boys.
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I like Nemo, The Lion King and Cars; my grandchildren would love this!
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Thank you for offering this giveaway. This Poingo really looks wonderful in helping kids learn. My son and daughter would both love this. I would say that they would both like the Nemo book the best.
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I would love to win this for my 3 year old son! He loves Cars, so I imagine that would be his favorite book that they offer.