Curious Columbus - Away We Go

I have 3 quiet books and this is by far the best for a 2-3 year old bc it gives more opportunity for sustained interaction with imaginary play. High quality and great for travel.

I bought this for a 15 hour plane trip with my eighteen month old. While he played with it on the flight intermittently, as he gets older I find him really growing into the book and the activities. I liked the book when it first arrived. It's well made and has good activities relatable for a little person, but I must say, as time goes on and I see how my son plays with the book, the more I love it. He's just starting to talk and signals he wants to play with it with a "big ay!". He loves the tooth brush, zipping and unzipping the closet, putting his foot in the shoe and his all time favorite activity is the washing machine which he makes sound effects for. It's a beautiful book. I ordered two quiet books for the flight and this one, is by far the superior book. It has the largest range of activities and built in imaginative play. I'd definitely recommend it.

Edit: customer service responded very very quickly and resolved our issue. Do not hesitate on purchasing this or the “my big day book”, they are wonderful! Though they might “fight over the one book(I have another ordered) It’s nice to see them playing with something not electronic. I got this for my almost 3 year old but my autistic 8 year old loves it as well as my 11 year old! She says it just so cute and I agree, I could sit and fidget with this book myself. Just received this book today for my almost 3 year old. We are having a hard time keeping her still in restaurants, she wants to do what her older siblings do and that’s get up and move. So far she likes it, our arrived missing the space ship for the astronaut page so she doesn’t have anything to do there but get frustrated with the extremely tiny buckle. But she loves the cooking page, doctor page, building page, mail page and fire truck page. The skate not so much, she loves the paint brush but has no interest in the paint buttons just yet. My 8 year old autisic child on the other hand loves this book resulting in me having to order my big day so we have two books, hopefully that one comes with all it should for $34 I expected more. Will update review once seller sends a new book with all parts.

Curious Columbus busy books are great many things to do to keep kids quiet and developing skills like colors, fine motor, dexterity even time. My older daughter teaches my younger daughter with thr book and loves to do it. These also hold up well. You just have to make sure those little ones put back all the pieces and zip it up. That is a nice touch so that you don't loose those fun parts.

Overall this is a good quiet book, although more appropriate for slightly older toddlers. When we got this for a long international trip for my son he was 21 months, and couldn't open the tent zip or thread the shoelace, or open the buckles (the buckles to be fair are VERY tiny and even I struggle if I'm a bit tired). He enjoyed the moveable velcro items (and yes we lost a bunch on the plane), but it didn't keep him busy for more than 5 minutes. Now that he's over 2 he can at least do the zip, but still can't do the other stuff. Whoever decided to have a removable part on the front of a toddler book (the plane propeller) gets negative points though! We lost it immediately - probably on the overnight flight over to our destination, but who knows. We realized the plane looked weird at some point and that there was supposed to be a propeller on it. Otherwise this is well-made and durable.

we needed some thing. Our kids could play with during church service and this was a hit.! It’s also great for long car rides or just something to help. Keep them distracted without the use of screens

These are pricey but very well-made. I bought both this one and “My Busy Day” at the same time, but they come with a 15% off coupon for a future purchase so I wish I had waited to buy the second one. While the recommended age is 3+, I bought this for my 15-month-old, thinking he would grow into it and could at least do the Velcro things for now. He loves these and begs to get them down whenever he notices them, but he is definitely a bit too young. The Velcro is quite strong and the pockets are tight (both good things in a product like this so pieces don’t get lost!) so you tend to need two hands and he just doesn’t have the dexterity for it yet. That said, he loves to try, and he points to things and has me do them for him. He’s already getting better at several of the skills needed, so it’s good fine-motor practice (although I’m honestly surprised he doesn’t get more frustrated by it.) So, it’s not the solo entertainment I had hoped quite yet, but he loves them and I believe will continue to love them. I also have to check the whole book every time I put it away to make sure the pieces made it back to their spots, which is a little cumbersome for now. A note on the pieces and little ones - if you have a little who constantly puts things in his/her mouth, consider waiting. Mine listens well and hasn’t had the urge to put these anywhere near his mouth (probably because the parts that come out are just felt so nothing to gum) but it could certainly be a choking hazard if you’ve got a little gummer. I also have a particularly attentive little, but a more age-appropriate busy book for his age would probably have more to do on each page. We bought these for a flight because every toy we use on long car trips makes noise and we didn’t want to be murdered by our seat mates, and I think they will be great for that... as long as we can keep track of the pieces. We’ve already used them on a three-hour car trip that turned into a seven-hour car trip (thanks, blizzard) and they definitely saved us from meltdown territory. We did temporarily lose a piece that went over the side of the car seat. Since there is Velcro on the back of a lot of pieces, they’ll find creative spots to stick themselves in a car interior. :-|

I purchased this book for my 23 month old to use on a 3 our plane ride. I love the fact that it has a zipper going around the entire outside of the book to contain all of the pieces and keep it neatly closed in my diaper bag. She loved the pages with the toothbrush, food, laundry and dog collar. The shoe laces and button flowers are still a little challenging for her tiny hands, but I know she will grow into them. This is very well made and nothing came apart when the pieces got stuck together. I would definitely recommend this book. It is also half the cost of other books in this category making it much easier to purchase. Other books I looked at were $85.00.

Got this for my daughter for our long flight to Europe! She loved it, it kept her occupied for long time., very good quality

Me gustó así es más fácil enseñarle a mi hija.

My 4 yr old loved this for a car trip and still plays with it at home as well. Great theme to each page although 1-2 pages weren’t as functional as others. Good quality.

Love this product for young children. Made with quality so can handle lots of use. Engaging and interesting for toddlers and even older children

Really good quality and each page a different thing for little people to do. Fun and learning in the one book