★★★★★ Favorite puzzle. I bought 10 different puzzles for my just turned 3 year old daughter and this one is her favorite. The picture is absolutly adorable with extra large thick pieces for small hands. It's very well made with six special shapes. I don't usually write reviews but I'm so glad I made the purchase and highly recommend it!

★★★★★ My son loved it so much. This puzzle is so nicely made. Great quality, definitely worth the money. My son is almost three years old , and he is obsessed to this puzzle. He was so proud of himself he completed the puzzle by himself. It helped building self confidence. I highly recommend this brand. I also bought the rainforest puzzle from this brand. Very happy !

★★★★★ Cute puzzle for toddler/preschooler. My 3yr old recently got interested in puzzles. At one point Chick fil a was putting the small version of this brand of puzzles in their kids meals and she became obsessed with those.So for Easter I got her this bigger one for more of a challenge. It's so cute and she was able to put it together on her own.

★★★★★ Super cute. This is an adorable puzzle and is very well made and interesting for kids to work through. Great way to introduce them to the concept of color and shape matching. Highly recommend!

★★★★★ Daughters favorite puzzle. My 3 year old does this puzzle over and over again. So fun that some pieces are a whole image.

★★★★★ Excellent quality, durable puzzle. The edges on the pieces of Mudpuppy puzzles fray less than other brands. Highly recommend!

★★★★★ Great pre school puzzle. Very colorful and sturdy. She loved the 6 special sized pieces. Made it multiple times on Easter.

★★★★☆ Grandson loves it. Dinosaurs? Yes, please.

★★★★★ My grandson LOVES doing this puzzle!

★★★★★ Still amazing after all these years, tickles your funny bone and snares your heart. I bought my first copy of Stellaluna before my daughter was born and it became one of our all-time favorite books to read together. (Verdi was probably a tie.) When I got a shower invitation from my niece lately asking people to bring a book instead of a card along with their gift, I grabbed three of our old childhood standbys: , , and . It’s so hard to choose so few out of so many of our favorite books, but she may be inundated with more books as her son gets older. 😉 I also ordered a new favorite, , but I’m not sure it will get here in time for her shower.Stellaluna is a baby fruit bat whose mother drops her accidentally during an owl attack. Stellaluna manages to fly away uninjured and finds herself adopted by a family of birds. Being a flying creature that hangs upside down to sleep and doesn’t like bugs is hard when you’re in a family of birds who prefer to fly during the day, sleep upright in their nest, and who turn down their noses at fruit. But they still all love one another, and the baby birds actually try to act a bit more bat-like with some rather painful results. One of the most adorable scenes is Stellaluna trying to learn to alight on a branch like a bird lands, rather than a bat. But every picture is adorable right down to everyone’s facial expressions.The vibrant pictures by Janell Cannon are whimsical, beautifully colored, and simply mesmerizing, making the text almost superfluous.(But not quite.) Stellaluna is a story of what it means to be family, what it means to feel different and like an outsider, and what it means to accept and love people even when they act in a manner that seems strange to you. You don’t have to understand someone to know that they are a person worthy of your love. Lots of good conversations will start with reading this book, not to mention initiate countless hours poring over the intricate and delicately colored illustrations.This 25th anniversary edition of Stellaluna includes colored versions of the small previously black and whtie line-art drawings on the text pages and a code to download craft and activity kits. There are also two pages about bats at the back of the book, which were updated for this edition.Highly recommended for anyone who loves to share beautiful picture books, heartwarming stories, and inspiration to understand that being different isn’t a bad thing. Simply one of the best picture books for children.

★★★★★ Great story. Good tail about love, adaptability, and family. Also includes information for craft ideas and a little bit about that science.

★★★★★ A beautiful book. We gift this book to so many friends. It is the sweetest book and my daughters (who are now adults) love this book and have many memories of listening to Stellaluna.

★★★★★ charming picture book that adults will enjoy reading with children. This is the 25th anniversary of Stellaluna which says a lot about the longevity of the story. I first bought this for my children when they were elementary age and have bought it several times since, most recently for the 3 year old daughter of a friend.Stellaluna is a young bat who is separated from her mother on her first flight. She survives by falling in a birds nest and being fed by the bird mother. Of course, eventually she is reunited with her mother, but along the way learns that she is different and that one can make friends with those who are different and even live in their world, but that family is important.The pictures both colored pages and line drawings in between are delightful as one can easily tell by the cover and children find them irresistible. Three and four year olds will likely be most interested in the pictures and enjoy the book as a bedtime story. Older children will enjoy reading the story for themselves and talking about it with parents or grandparents.

★★★★★ Classic. Beautiful classic story and illustrations with a lesson to be learned

★★★★★ Stella Luna. El libro es muy interesante que bien que los pajaritos la recibieron como parte de ellos ♥️

★★★★★ My favorite children's book. If I HAD to answer the question: What is your favorite children's book?, I would have to pick "Stellaluna." There, this children's librarian committed, but I think my students would know that. It's one of their favorites, too!!What makes this book so special? E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!! The story line, the embedded lessons, and the sweet, sweet illustrations. I don't know how well you can see the young bat's face on the cover. If you can, notice that darling tongue sticking out, like a puppy's. Notice her struggle, expressed with joy, to hold on to the limb. And we have not even opened the book yet!This is the story of a young bat who is separated from her mother after an owl attacks them in flight. She falls into a tree, then into a bird's nest filled with three hungry babies who are already fully feathered. The mother bird adopts her but insists she eat bugs like her babies. Stellaluna is a fruit bat, but adopts the ways of birds, except for hanging by her feet to sleep. Her new siblings try it one day. Mother returns and expresses her dismay. The babies are hilariously portrayed with their bird feathers hanging down from their heads.When they learn to fly, poor Stellaluna is so clumsy trying to land upright on a limb with feet equipped for hanging, not perching. At night her bat radar comes into play and she goes weird on them flying by radar. Eventually, her bat mother finds her and Stella's world is restored. She discovers she eats mangoes, not bugs. She is delighted!And the second best part is that she remains friends with her bird friends.Embedded lessons:1. Bats are what they are; birds are what they are.2. We can accept each other's differences and be enriched by the experience.3. It's good to walk in another's shoes just a short time.4. There are some artists with stories sweet and heartwarming without being saccharine.5. The author furnishes "Bat Notes" on the last two pages for further educational value.This book belongs in every child's personal library and on the shelf in every children's library. Highly recommended.Other favorite books by Janell Cannon:

★★★★★ Great story. I was asked to bring a book along with a baby gift to a shower. I purchased Stellaluna because of all the great reviews and the storyline. Hope this helps.

★★★★★ The children love this book.

★★★★★ Es un cuento que transmite el valor de la inclusión

★★★★★ Nettes Bich

★★★★★ quality good, satisfied with product

★★★★★ A Wonderful story with beautiful illustrations . Great for children and adults .

★★★★★ Want Better Solutions? Ask Better Questions. According to Stephen Shapiro, the key to finding better solutions is to ask better questions. In a book full of excellent, real-world examples, Shapiro suggests 25 lenses that we can use to refine the questions we ask about our own high-priority problems.These lenses are organized and presented in a highly-implementable "use this lens when..." fashion. For example...Lens #6: Use this lens when you’ve been recycling past solutions.Lens #12: Use this lens when your challenge relies on the work of a particular person.Lens #18 Use this lens when you’re having issues hitting a goal.I especially enjoyed the author's flair for clarifying his premise using pairing examples--such as the wait time at baggage claim and in theme park lines.I also found Shapiro's "innovate where you differentiate" principle to be very thought provoking. This notion--that we should focus our creative lenses on areas in which we already stand out from our competition--will help me grow my own business.Finally, should the author ever read this review, he's convinced me to buy a new mattress!Highly recommended! A+++

★★★★☆ Ian Mann's book reviews. Some weeks ago, I reviewed a book on the importance of leaders being the best questioners in the room. In fact, promotion to leadership is more reasonably justifiable based on this strength, rather than prowess at always having handy, smart sounding answers. The belief in the all-knowing manager/leader, if it was ever appropriate, is today a sign of shocking naivete.This book is in the same vein, but rather than being a guide to the value of questions as a leadership approach, this is a handy, clever primer on how to ask ever better questions.Author Stephen Shapiro has compiled 25 “lenses’’ through which to look for better questions which will provide the best chance of finding the best solution. 25 seems an awful lot to get your head around, but once the logic around which they are clustered is clear, it becomes more easily manageable. Besides which, for serious issues, it is certainly prudent to spend some time working through the key sections of this book or using the “cheat sheet” available on Shapiro’s website.The quality of both your business and life are largely dependent on the quality of the problems you unpack and the decisions you make, that provide the best way forward. Asking different and better questions is the key to finding better solutions. If you are asking the wrong question, you will never find the right answer. The most valuable and practical solutions are often available, but only when correctly approached, can problem-solving help us uncover those hidden opportunities.Consider the following problem that anyone who has flown would recognize. Once you leave the door of the plane, it may take you only 5 minutes to be in the luggage collection section of the airport. However, it often takes your suitcases 15 minutes to get to the same section. That infuriates passengers!The airport Shapiro describes was well aware of the problem and tried many solutions to get the bags to the collection section faster, but it was simply not possible to beat the 5 minutes it takes passengers to get there. Logistically they could not reduce the time passengers had to wait.Then the airport authority realised that speeding up baggage deliver was not actually the best formulation of the challenge: it was attempting to answer the wrong question. The better formulation of the challenge question was actually ‘how can we improve the wait-time experience?’The airport answered the question by routing passengers through a mock version of the Rockefeller Centre, where they could wander around and view exhibits from past Tonight Shows, play video games, charge their phones, and watch live barbershop quartets.Large corporations face large challenges: How can we avoid becoming a commodity? How can we make sure we are not disrupted by new technologies or nimble start-ups?Small business owners, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs have their own long list of serious challenges: How can we deal with larger competitors that have more money and resources? How can we meet payroll each month?Life itself presents everyone with personal challenges: How can I feed my family after losing my job? How can I get promoted at work?Shapiro’s 25 lenses provide a method for dealing with a variety of challenges clustered around 5 approaches to the challenges. This method helps sift out the most promising question style, most likely to address the real challenge.In some instances, you will need to reduce your challenge question from something too vague to something more specific. From the vague ‘what can we do to improve our revenue?’ to ‘how can we induce our regular customers to buy even more of their necessary supplies from us?’One hotel chose to move their question from ‘how can we delight customers with an amazing experience’ to ‘how can we make our guests first and last experience - checking-in and checking-out more pleasurable.’But you might be better served by increasing the abstraction of your challenge question from ‘how can we fix our delivery system’ to something more general. If solving the problem of delays will be more easily addressed by asking how to improve the whole experience of purchasing so that goods are in the hand of the customer sooner, increasing abstraction is the better question.Tyson Foods, the world's second largest processor and a manufacturer and marketer of chicken, beef and pork, announced that it was expanding by investing in a plant-based shellfish start-up, as well as a vegan chicken nuggets producer. They moved from being a meat company (specific) to a protein company (general).Repetition often locks one into a particular view of a problem and trying to solve it from that perspective might be the root of the problem. A change of perspective is required.A paint manufacturer’s traditional sequence of production was to estimate how much of a particular colour to manufacture, and then to make it. By changing their perspective of the manufacturing sequence, they left colour for last. They mixed the colour on demand in the store as the customer selected it. No estimating required, and no shortages.In some circumstances, the challenge question may appear to be in conflict with another critical element. If I do either one, the other will be compromised. Changing the question to embrace both sides of the conflict may be where intellectual effort is best spent.Faced with needing to design a method of reducing road noise in a car. the obvious solution was to add extra insulation. However, this would increase weight and fuel consumption. When the question was how to both reduce road noise and increase fuel efficiency, the company was led to the electronic noise cancelling technology installed in headphones with almost no weight.For most questions, the author advises using ‘Zero-in’, the fifth category of questions to clarify the real problem by its root cause.A consumer goods company invested a large amount of money and time in trying to develop an alcohol-free mouthwash that would be as effective as products containing alcohol. They had understood this as a customer preference. However, this turned out to be extraordinarily difficult to achieve.When they interrogated what customers wanted it was not an alcohol-free mouthwash, but the more easily addressed removal of the “sting” associated with an alcohol-based product. Now they could solve the real problem.This is a very practical guide to the clarification questions you should be answering. I believe that simply reading the book will heighten your awareness of asking more accurate question so you can arrive at more appropriate answers. Using the techniques, deliberately, regularly and often, will greatly improve your solutions.Readability Light -+--- SeriousInsights High --+-- LowPractical High +---- Low*Ian Mann of Gateways consults internationally on strategy and implementation, is the author of ‘Strategy that Works’ and a public speaker.

★★★★★ Clever, smart, and just what I needed. I loved every part of this book - from start to finish. I'm an instructional designer in education, and never saw myself needing to find business solutions - until I read this book. I learned how to rethink the questions I was asking to build better solutions for my learners, and the book offers tools to do exactly this - another thing I didn't know I needed until I read it. The book is clear, concise, and a tool I use regularly when I find myself stuck or stumped. I've assigned it to my own students as well to get them thinking how to ask better questions. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE looking to get out of their own way and find creative solutions to everyday problems in any industry!

★★★★★ Apply Even 1 Lens To Your Business and Watch Major Change Happen, Let Alone All 25. The media could not be loaded.  Talk about a readable, powerful book. Stephen Shapiro's writing style will satisfy the creative artist and the innovative academic. Put to the test ANY of the lenses in this book, as I did, if you watch the video you'll see what I mean, and it can change your business immediately. I have put into practice solving my problems with the 25 lenses and the application is so practical and exciting to watch take shape. With examples of businesses having done the same over many years, Stephen makes "Invisible Solutions" The Standard in Innovation books in the last decade. Well done!

★★★★★ Excellent book. I gained a lot of new insights from this book about solving the right problems. Great book. I recommend it highly!

★★★★☆ Making the Invisible, Visible. Stephen’s book offers a myriad of outside-the-box solutions for everyday problems that will make you a better leader or business owner. This book forces readers to look at business through different prisms, ask the right questions in order to change, challenge the status quo, and steamroll obstacles. Are you ready to push boundaries? Start reading this book now!

★★★☆☆ Nice to have. It is a good book for beginners. I like the cases / examples being shared.

★★★★★ Practical and Powerful Ways to Solve Difficult Business Problems. This book delivers exceptionally powerful principles, practices, and tools that you can put to use immediately to solve all kinds of business problems! Stephen Shapiro, one of the leading speakers, thinkers, writers and consultants on innovation, presents some of his best ideas in ways any one of us can apply his thinking to our challenges. Absolutely brilliant in its clarity, applicability, and ease of use in unlocking thorny issues. Highly recommended, indispensable tool for breaking through blocks and creating new avenues for success!

★★★★☆ If you want to get a grip on Problem Framing this is one of the books.It had been sitting in my library for a while, and I recently came across a framework for Problem Solving where the authors talk about "framing the problem". A detailed discussion on framing the problem has been immensely helpful. But as the author said you need to practice the lenses again and again for the content to be part of the DNA.4 stars for the reason that additional resources link is ineffective (www.invisiblesolutionsresources.com). It has been two days since I registered, and I am yet to receive a confirmation email. Probably I never will.

★★★★★ For leaders, executives, managers, government officials, executive coaches, parents and anyone else looking for a practical and tested framework to solve challenging problems. I can't think of a topic and an approach more relevant for our times.The book is clear and unpretentious, actionable and engaging and based on decades of research and application from a practitioner and leader in the field of business innovation.It's structured in a way that puts the focus on helping the readers look at problems from 25 tested, creative, usable, wise and aha-type question-based perspectives.It's the rare kind of book where you can't wait to finish, put the book down and apply what you've just read.

★★★★★ The toolset we need to reframe questions and question the word "innovation". A game changer for many innovators, and a fresh perspective on many topics I teach at university classes.

★★★★★ Thought provoking to say the least, this book will stay on the edge of my desk as a useful tool