Little Elephant Listens (Hello Genius)

My 2 and 1/2 year old son loves this series of books. I bought all of them because I think the concept is great: teaching kids the right thing to do. My son loves to colorful images and silly things that happen in them. They are short books and do not have too many words on the page, which makes them nice and quick for reading time. I tend to read 3-4 of these each night at bedtime. At this time I can;t say they are 100% effective at behavior changes, but having him listen to the story does allow him to hear what is "right." I assume that it will sink in eventually! I will come back, and edit, once I can determine if they make a difference in my child.

My four-year-old loves to read this book over and over again. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story provides many opportunities to ask questions and interact with your child. There is a page where the elephant is eating different fruits, and I ask my son questions like, "Where are the bananas?" or "Where is the watermelon?" He enjoys pointing to the pictures and finding the answers. Then he starts asking me questions too, which makes reading even more fun and engaging. This is a wonderful interactive book that helps build vocabulary and communication skills. I highly recommend it!

We bought this for our 2 1/2 yr old grandson. He loves it so much that his parents now have to include this in the reading cycle every single night and he Always tells them, 'one more time'. He says Gigi and Poppop in place of their names so this book is about us,which makes it even more special now. You cannot go wrong with this series, we've bought him so many that he almost has them all and each one has truly helped with the lesson it brings. A+++

I have been kind of torn on how to rate this book, I think it's really about a 4.5 in my opinion. So this was one of several Michael Dahl books I bought to reinforce skill sets that our son, who has some more specialized needs, is struggling with. What I really like about these books is that the sentence structures are simple, the emotions are clearly drawn and easy to read, and they are short, all of which allows our beautiful little Autistic dude to get through the books easier. He's short on patience for books, sitting is really *really* a 4 letter word in his universe unless it's for bubbles or TV at this time, and he struggles to register more subtly drawn expressions and connect them with the appropriate emotions. So those are all great strengths for these books. So for our handsome little man, I wouldn't exactly say listening is his problem. He hears you. Boy, does he hear you...and just about every other itsy bitsy teeny tiny squeak of a noise that happens in this house. It's actually *doing* what you asked him to do that's the problem. So that's where the half a star comes in. I think it would have been great if "...and he did it!" was thrown in there. I've been adlibbing and adding it in there myself. The point does come across in that it shows little elephant doing the action he's asked to do, but for our little guy, who from everything we can tell is super literal, in his mind if you just say "listen to me" he's thinking, "of course I listened to you, I heard every word, doesn't mean I think I need to do it because I certainly don't want to do it." Or something like that. He's non-verbal, but he has some pretty sophisticated grades of stink eye and eye rolling that pretty much clue you in to what's going on in his fabulously cute head. So, I think this is a very cute, short book that can be used to reinforce the doing part of listening as long as you point that out as needed. Most likely age appropriate for 18-24 month old kiddos, but for special needs kiddos or those with developmental delays, that range could be higher...our little man is 5.

Nice board book. My son loves this series of books, even though he is 4 1/2 and generally into books aimed at his age range. I highly recommend these books because each topic is simplified and very straight forward, and the artwork is very cute. (Little Monkey Calms Down is one of his all time favorite books, fwiw)

My child absolutely loves these books. Cannot wait to order more by this author. Great material for children.

Love these books and I'm sure we have almost every one of them by now. These are easy for my daughter to follow along with and learn from. Started reading these to my daughter when she started biting at about a year and she's been picking different books from this series for the past 8 months when it's story time.

Hello genius board book. Cute cover and nice pictures insides. Great story to show little ones about listening.

A mi hijo le encantó mucho. Lo compre para agregarlo a su colección de la misma serie hello genius. Pensé que sería de papel como otros cuentos pero la portada es de cartón grueso y sus hojas también.

Love how large the font is for my toddler to follow along . Cute story !

Lovely pictures, nice and bright , words where easy to follow so 7 Yr old could read and gain confidence

I love all these books! The kids are always asking for each one, as they see the pictures of each book on the back. They ask me to read them again and again. The books are simple and strightforward, with some cute humour, they’re fun to read aloud to the kids. And they teach the kids great skills in a positive and gentle way. I’m very particular about books being respectful and non punitive, and these books really fit that perfectly.

A short but very lovely book , for children teaching them how to listen to others, and teaching them manner for later in life .