Stages Learning Materials SLM154 Occupations Poster Set Set Of 6, Price/EA

These are exactly as described and solid quality.

These are large, pretty thick pictures. I got them for my 2 year old and she loves to look at them. Larger than I expected but that's not a bad thing. Good quality, helps her learn her animals.

This is a set of large format animal posters on card stock about the thickness of a standard post card. They are neither overly flimsy nor very firm. The weight of the stock is such that they can't be rolled for storage (too firm), but also can't be bent without damaging them. I found them easy to hold to show to kids and easy to mount using just blue tack or masking tape. The quality of the pictures is mostly excellent, especially for large format pictures. Most are quite crisp and clear without distortions, blurring, or “noise”. The snake picture, spider, frog, gerbil, and tortoise are especially sharp and natural looking. Some of the other images are a bit grainy (the horse is the “worst” in showing grain) and a few others seem to be from lower resolution source images that seem to have been manipulated to look a bit better and show modest distortions. The fish image, for example, shows an edge that betrays aliasing and was over-sharpened. I think some of them also had noise added to them to disguise pixelation or other defects, but it's not especially obvious. All in all though, for the size of the images, these are very, very nice and only someone who wasn't scrutinizing them as carefully as I did would even notice these defects. I mention them here not because they are strong demerits, but just for to inform. They certainly are of sufficient quality to fulfill their intended purpose and are big enough to use on the walls of a room for teaching purposes.

We got these for my daughter's preschool and they were a big hit. They're beautiful full-color stock nature photos printed on glossy cardstock. The size is large enough for across-the-room viewing, equally great for teachers to hold up for all to see, or to decorate walls. The pictures are generally representative, though a few species chosen weren't the most iconic version (the gull, in particular, seemed a less unequivocal respresentation if the species). The backs simple give a generic description: seagull. If the backs listed the actual species pictured (common name would be fine--e.g., Great Horned Owl instead of just 34;owl34;) or gave a few facts about each bird, these would be truly outstanding, both for teachers and young animal enthusiasts. My pre-schooler, for one, wants more information, and today's nature-oriented kid shows teach them to expect a bit more.

These card photos really aren't suitable for hanging on the wall other than in an informal sense. A couple of mine had damage on them that was clearly caused by some sort of feed machine during manufacturing. Also, the photo quality is varied on them, some being very nice that I would hang up on the wall, and others being fairly low stock photo quality that I wouldn't hang up. However, for the purpose of using these as flash cards they are wonderful. My daughter absolutely loves going through these and looking at all the various birds. As a warning though, the corners are sharp, so if you have them around the younger kids you should dull/trim the corners slightly to avoid possible eye injuries (this is true with any card-stock that tends to have sharper corners). So great for flash cards, not great as wall art. Probably aren't all going to be in perfect condition. Keep that in mind when you buy them and you should be pleased. Buying this is probably cheaper than printing some large prints for the same purpose. I included a picture of my daughter looking at one of the birds.