Eleven vehicles lift out of this blue wooden board, and beside every single recess the board prints what the vehicle is called: Crane, Truck, Ambulance, Bus, Police Car, Motorcycle, Plane, Bike, Fire Engine, Taxi and Ship. That printed word is the whole idea. A child who already shouts at every fire engine that goes past the gate gets a name to attach to what they are pointing at, in English, without an adult having to sit alongside.

The pieces are flat and thick, cut to the outline of each vehicle, and they lift straight out of shallow recesses. There are no knobs or pegs on top. That makes them easier to line up on a table and drive around by hand than a peg puzzle, and it also means a younger toddler has to pinch rather than grip, which is the harder and more useful movement.

The artwork is worth a look before you buy, because it is what children actually talk about: the crane has a driver leaning out of the cab, the bus has three passengers at the windows, the ambulance carries a red cross and a man in the door, and the ship has a smiling face on the hull. The plane, motorcycle and fire engine are drawn in the same flat cartoon style, so the set hangs together rather than looking like a mixed bag.

Be clear about what this board is and is not. It names eleven vehicles. It does not print traffic signs, signals, zebra crossings or road rules anywhere — despite the title across the top, there is no red-amber-green on it. If you want a child to learn signals, this is the vehicle-vocabulary half of that job and you will need something else for the rest.

It works from about two and a half, when the pieces are still just things to take out and put back, up to five or six, when a child can read the word next to the hole. Parents of school-age children mostly use it for English naming practice and then for sorting games — which of these carries people, which one helps in an emergency, which one does not touch the road at all.

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