This is the first "real" puzzle that I buy my son (2 years and 8 months): very good quality as always with this brand, many reasons that interest my son, parts are easy to handle (more thicker and stronger than cardboard) and simple designs and well positioned (straddle several pieces) to help identify. On puzzles other brands I've seen in 9 or 12 pieces the image is too detailed, with many colors, so too difficult to reconstruct for a young child.