Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand

My 6-year-old granddaughter can’t get enough Encyclopedia Brown books!! She goes through one in a day, then re-reads it several times. Her dad, my son, loved them when he was a little older than she is now.

I remember reading these when I was a kid and was glad to see Encyclopedia back with some new stories.They are great because they make you CONCENTRATE on the stories to find the clues to solve the mysteries. My son and I take turns, each reading a page aloud, until we get to the end of the story then we discuss what we think happened and why. Sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. It's alot of fun and it helps him learn to "find the details" in the stories.If you have a grade/middle school child, I'd highly recommend any of these books.

Our 7 yr old son loves this book series; we have bought MANY of them. This is each nights reading when we go to bed; we have to read at least 2 cases each evening, and figure out the clues. These books are fun reading, and actually challenge your kids to remember, comprehend and apply what they have read to figure out the answer to each case (and the solve for each case is found in the rear section of the book). Most boys would really enjoy these; I figure the girls would too, we just don't have any at our house to take a vote on that!!!

I really love the Encyclopedia Brown Books. I really enjoy seeing them on the Kindle and they are fun little puzzler stories to read to my kids and see if they can solve them. Can't say enough how enjoyable the logic that some of the thinking that goes on with these stories is great teaching tool for my kids as well.So why the two star listing? Well the formatting sucks and sucks harder than a brand new Hoover vacuum on a shag carpet. There is no link between the solution and the story nor the next story in the series. So you have either have to create a link to the solutions individually for each of the or create a link to the solutions chapter and then flip back to the stories. This is an issue that nearly all of the Penguin Ebook editions published today have had. It is annoying and aggravating since this should have been something easily created when the book was originally ported over to an ebook standard. I mean I have seen self-published books in similar genres that have hot links going back and forth between solutions or maps or appendices over to the main text. So that is why the two star listing.

Classic. My 8 year old loves trying to figure out the solutions! I read them 35 years ago myself, and loved them then.

My grandson loves this book, as he does all of the Encyclopedia Brown books. He is nine years old. He started reading them when he was eight. I read them as a child and love that they are timeless!

Arrived on time, the product was perfect. The seller was in touch. It was what I wanted.

A great blast from the past . A gift for my nine year old daughter