Cars 2: My Busy Book and Winnie the Pooh: My Busy Book

Title Cars 2 Cool Cars: My Busy Book

Published by Phidal Publishing Inc. in 2011

Format Boardbook/ Playmat/ Toy

Join Lightning, Mater and their newest friends from Disney/Pixar Cars 2. Read the rhyming tales, then create your very own adventures with 12 Disney/Pixar figurines and a giant playmat.

Title Winnie the Pooh Best of Friends: My Busy Book

Published by Phidal Publishing Inc. in 2011

Format Boardbook/ Playmat/ Toy

The Disney Winnie the Pooh Busy Book is an amusing storybook and inventive toy in one activity kit. Full-page illustrations and a rhyming tale bring the Hundred-Acre Woods friends to life, as your child's imagination expands with 12 toy figurines and a giant playmat. 

My review

I originally bought the Winnie the Pooh Busy Book as a reward for my Lil Monster after a week of good behavour. I found it on offer in my local supermarket for £1.92. Having never heard of My Busy Books before I wasn't sure what to expect but I was pleasantly suprised. The Winnie the Pooh book was such a hit with my Lil Monster that I also got the Cars 2 edition. This one was £5 but still a great deal.

The books contains short, enjoyable rhymes on each page about the different characters. The pictures are bright and eye catching and the rhymes are fun to read together, or useful for the parents who don't know who each character is. 

The play mats are thin but durable plastic. The Winnie the Pooh playmat is of 100 Acerwood and the Cars 2 playmat consists of 4 different places, London, Japan, Italy and Radiator Springs (the town from the first Cars movie). They are easy to fold up and have their own slot in the book. 

Each Busy Book has 12 figures. In the Cars 2 book all the figures are cars from the movie and in the Winnie the Pooh book there are the main characters Pooh, Piglet, Tigger etc and Christopher Robin, a butterfly and a bird. In this book some of the figures are very small for example the pot of hunny and Roo, these would be easy for younger children to swallow. 

Since they've been bought they have been played with every single day. They're perfect for encouraging imagination and play. They're also perfect for taking out with you if you're visiting someones house or for a car journey, the figures and playmat just pack away in the book making it easy to take with you.

The great thing about My Busy Books is that there is one for everyone. You could get Thomas the Tank Engine, Toy Story or Cars for the boys and Disney Princesses, Disney Fairies or My Little Pony for the girls. Plus many more.

All in all My Busy Books are perfect gifts for your Lil Monserz, a great mix of reading and playing all packed up in a small box. With such a wide range in choice it'd be hard to not find one you want.