Over 500 hidden pictures to search for - sort and count!

Excellent book to have on hand when you need your child to focus for 20-30 minutes. Highly reccomend this for long car ride or airplanes but it does require someone interact with it and the child. Some of items are harder to spy but that makes this great because you can enjoy for a couple weeks, put it away, take it back out a few months later and they will spy more things. I'd say a 2-4 year old would really enjoy this book.

Excellent book. Hours of fun. Age range from c12 months up (although the book is conservative to recommend 2 years +).

My son has learnt a vast amount of vocabulary by searching through 10 extremely decorative scenes on varying topics: Pirates, Jungle, Dinosaurs, Wizards, Space, Seaside, Bedroom (& toys), Castles, Workshop & Farm scenes.

Find color & number references like: 10 green bottles, 4 blue lizards, 7 blue spell books, 8 yellow dinosaurs, 4 red soldiers etc.

Good quality book, it won't disappoint.

Decent but not what my child was wanting. My conflict is that it was listed as a toddler book (2+) but it is not one they can do on their own (which is what my son prefers) -meaning there is no legend in picture form that a young child can reference too when looking for an object. It's all in words so you have to read it with your child, which is fine for some, but my child likes to do these type of books on his own and show us he found the items without our help. But the book has counting elements which I find to be useful and fun for my child who currently loves to count.

Bought this for our 18 month old son who generally is entirely too busy to be bothered sitting still to read a book.. HE LOVES THIS! He will actually sit on our lap for 10-20 minutes (usually at night) to go from page to page finding the different items. Great for building vocabulary and object recognition.

Not sure what age this is recommended for. It was too much for my 2yo son to pay attention to, but it was great for vocabulary building by looking at all the wonderfully drawn pictures. Easy to turn pages for little ones, and will be really great when he's old enough to pay attention and actually find everything on all the pages.

My 2 year old grandsons like this book. They like hunting for different items. Personally, I thought it had a little too much of the same thing on each page...such as "Find 5 drums" but the boys seem to like just hunting for one..so if they like it...then that's the whole point! Very brightly colored pictures!

I love this book ... except for the wizard/witch pages. My 3-year old grandson always passes by those pages tho ... even at 3 years old he recognizes they are dark and scary. The other pages are delightful.

My kids absolutely love the book and looking at all the colorful scenes, but I really don't understand the reason for it being so gendered. There's no reason it couldn't have just been a treasure hunt for children.

The questionable pages that another reviewer mentioned are now worse than TV shows on Nick Jr. Or Disney. The Pirates and wizard pages are pretty innocuous. There's lots of stuff to find on every page. Our two year old boy loves this book.

My toddler boys love this book. The scenes are colorful and filled with many images that the kids seem to love and find. The three star rating is the emphasis on gender ~ "for boys". Wouldn't girls also love scenes like: the beach, castles, wizards, and the jungle? I know several girls that love this book just as much as my boys do.

This book is copyrighted 2010 and I realize that our society is going from bad to worse in regards to sanity but this book rated for boys aged 2+ which really lends to the state of depravity.

For instance:
"Can you find 3 jars of eyeballs?"

Nice.

On this same page is a jar full of bones, and several human skulls complete with a witch scooping from her green cauldron of goo.

And people wonder why school aged children commit horrendous crimes when authors of young children's books strive to normalize evil.

Children should not be able to identify with these things nor should authors strive to make them entertaining. This is psychotic and disturbing. There are many other "search and find" books out there for children--especially toddlers. This one needs to stay in the warehouse.

Rating based on description for which purchase decision was based. Great book for toddler age. The age range on the Item description states "ages 5-8". Unfortunately, I missed the back of the book cover which indicates it is for ages 2 and up. I was unable to return this brand new book because I missed the 30 day window.

We own about a dozen Priddy books and have enjoyed them all. They keep my son occupied for a long time and he enjoys them a lot. I saw one of the other Treasure Hunt books at our children's library and ordered this one for my 2 year old son. This is the first Priddy Book I don't love.

Each theme is a double page spread with a list of 10 different things to find. These are the spreads:
1. Pirates
2. Zoo
3. Dinosaurs
4. Wizards
5. Outer Space
6. Beach
7. Boy's bedroom
8. Castle/Knights
9. Garage/Workshop
10. Farm

I have a few objections. First, I think pirates and wizards are very dark themes for 2 year olds (the recommended minimum age for this book). Though I object in general to these themes, even if I didn't, I still think the way they're shown in this book is too dark for a children's book. The pirates page is full of skulls and crossbones, and the pirates are menacing, not whimsical. The wizards page has jars of eyeballs, a cauldron cooking, and other dark magic elements, which I find to be totally inappropriate in a child's book. They could have easily included pages on sports, or transportation, or other age-appropriate themes.

I don't really love the other pages, either. On the zoo page, the animals are almost too whimsical so in a couple of cases, my son didn't recognize them, though he can name all his animals in any other context.

The space and castle themes are cute enough, but they're not really things a 2 year old is familiar with. I found that on most of the other pages, I could tell my son, "Can you find a ________." But until this book, he really had never encountered a knight, or a satellite, or an archer, etc, so those pages could have been more useful/familiar in my opinion. I didn't find them objectionable...just, a little far-reaching for the target audience.

On the positive side, the pages are full, vibrant, and colorful, and there is a great variety of themes. My son is fairly bright, and this kept him studying to find whatever I asked him about. I appreciated that it challenged him.

However, overall, this is just a miss. I regret ordering this without having seen it first. It's very far off the mark of the Priddy Standard we've come to expect and enjoy.

Unfortunately, I was unable to flip through the whole book before purchasing so I assumed that all the pages were okay. But there was a witchcraft page and some others that I just don't think were necessary. I really wish I were able to look through the whole thing before buying it because now my son isn't allowed to look at it.

Welcome the storeers to my once in a blue moon rant: This really irks me. Having a kid who loves all things cars, trains, dinosaurs and generally anything “boyish”, this is such a waste of sales on the company’s part. I would have bought this. I’m sure many other parents of daughters would have too. It would have become her favorite book. Currently, her most favorite book in the world is Goodnight Construction Site, Goodnight. Her favorite shows all have cars, trains and trucks in them. She sleeps with her plush soccer ball, takes baths with her boats and obsessives over car shows when they come to town. When she was two, her favorite toy was a 1966 cobalt blue fastback mustang. She probably knows more than the average boy about cars. Get it together publishers. You’re losing sales. You need to fade this BS out. I will buy this book once the title is updated or another book that includes both genders comes out.

Rant, commenced.

This is a very cute, engaging, visually appealing book that is wonderful for the pre-literate set. My nephew brings this with him everywhere and always wants to find the hidden items with me. This book encourages focus while fostering a general love of books.

My only complaint, and this is a big one: why is this book "for boys?" I would love to buy this for my own daughter, but I don't want to buy her something that says "for boys" in huge letters across the front. There is nothing intrinsically male about any of the scenes depicted here -- girls can be interested in pirates, dinosaurs, and jungle animals, too. The "for girls" version of this book has scenes of a pony show, fairies, the seashore, etc. -- also things that could interest boys. How much better this would have been if it were simply titled "Treasure Hunt," and parents and children could look through the books themselves and determine their interest.

If you happen to own the "Treasure Hunt for Girls" book, please be aware that they have three duplicate pages (they are appear in both the girls and boys books). Not a huge deal but thought I would share that info