I liked the idea of this book in regards to helping my son learn how to tie his shoes. The illustrations are very well done and the rhyme is very catchy. However, my son kept getting frustrated when it came to making the bows. I don't think the book did a great job of explaining it. We've had to resort to a different method (not the bunny ears) that seems to be working well. Overall, this is a good book. I think it just depends on how your child learns.

Like others, my son found it really aggravating trying the bunny ears method of tying. It's the complete inability of kids to get one loop made, hold it, and then get the other loop made while still holding the first one! Ergh.

We purchased this book because our daughter is great at learning rhymes and we thought it would help her learn to tie her shoe. We were dissappointed that it teaches the "rabbit ears" knot, but even more dissappointed to find two of the illustrations out of sequence. That type of error make learning very difficult.

This book tought my 6 year old how to tie his own shoes in 1 day.

I ordered this book after I read about the good reviews. But I am disappointed. I do not really care what kind of methods (one or two loops) the book shows as long as my son can tie his shoes. But the pictures are really confusing for a 3.5 years old. The max he can do is to put the red lace over the yellow lace and tie the first knot. When it comes to the loops, he is totally lost. Hopefully it will work for an older kid. As for the wordings in the book, which the reader supposed to memorize and be able to tie his shoes later on, are not even rhyme.