Great book, sweet illustrations, my 3 year old daughter and a half knows his alphabet from Balthazar and pleased him, also great being able to touch the letters and prepare the child for the purposes of writing, it is a evolutionary book at first we memorized phrases of primer, then letters, then now trying to draw them. At the end of the illustrations allow to reinvest the first letter of the words, but it will still be to prepare for later reading ...