My 2.5 year old loves this. He is always asking to play with it. The wooden letters are so well made. Excellent quality. My only critique is that the words chosen are not all phonetic (e.g. "ice"). For very young children just learning the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, ideally you would introduce only phonetic words (like "red", with no silent letters (like the silent e in "ice"), to avoid confusion. But other than that I am very happy with this set.