Live Laugh Love: The First Wave

The First Wave, LLC is a leading children's educational media company dedicated to inspiring a child's life-long love of learning. The company was co-founded by a mother-daughter team, Melissa and Dolores Neumann.

Co-founder Melissa Neumann has over 16 years of finance and entrepreneurial experience. She founded three successful companies, including GenArt, which now operates in five cities in the U.S. and a profitable magazine company at Harvard Business School. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School. Co-founder Dolores Neumann, the niece of Eugene Ormandy (former conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra), composed all the original music and lyrics in the videos. Melissa Neumann has three young children, Lita, Lachlan, and Eva. Dolores Neumann has three daughters and six grandchildren.........read more about the first wave click here

I had the opportunity to review their Come Dance With Us CD & The Groovy Letter Book. Which has been a great learning tool for my son who is 4 years old. So I was super excited with them returning my email response from there company. This book makes the letter fun & easy to remember. My son also loved the CD as well he was listening to all the songs on the CD & dancing all goofy like he usually does when he acts silly. His favorite song was There's a Little Monkey I remember when he was like 2-3 years of age he would always make me sing that 3 Little Monkeys jumping on the bed. (lol) to funny.

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Book Features:

Includes an accompanying CD (contains songs on the Letters and Vowels, to add a further audio/musical component to the learning outreach of the book)

Recommended for ages 1 to 4 years old

Illustrated in brilliant colors

Each letter is shown with color coded parts and directional arrows, to allow and encourage the child to begin to trace the letter's form.

Lowercase letters are used, which are more commonly found in words. Linking each letter with an object that looks like it and whose name starts with that letter.

Designed to be interactive

There are suggested activities for reading and writing included. Children are asked to say the letters' phonetic sound, and trace their little fingers along the letter, as if they were writing. Letters are cleverly broken down into 9 components in order to help children better remember letters and develop fine motor skills.