Instructional child's story and picture book

A multi-stimulus method for the concomitant development of cognitive and motor skills comprising:

• I. providing a multi-functional book comprising:
• A. a plurality of pages, each page having:
• (i) a first face including a cavity defined therein, and a plurality of puzzle pieces, each puzzle piece including a portion of a first display therein, said pieces configured to be retained in said cavity in a preselected pattern and to cooperate to define said first display when so retained;
• and
• (ii) a second face having a second display thereupon, one of said first display and said second display comprising a body of text and the other of said first display and said second display comprising a picture, said picture being provided with a layer of transparent material thereupon, said text on one of said plurality of pages corresponding to said picture on another one of said plurality of pages;
• B. a binding operative to retain said pages in a preselected order so that, when said book is opened, a picture disposed on a first one of said pages is adjacent to a corresponding body of text disposed on a second one of said pages, said text corresponding to said picture;
• II. providing an erasable implement operative to make removable marks on the layer of transparent material disposed on said picture;
• III. opening said book so as to display a picture and corresponding text;
• IV. executing a cognitive task comprising, viewing the second display on a preselected one of said pages, and;
• V. executing at least one motor task selected from group consisting of:
• removing the puzzle pieces from a page adjacent said preselected page, replacing the puzzle pieces into the cavity in said page so as to form said first display, coloring said picture, and erasing a colored portion of said picture;
• whereby the execution of said cognitive and motor tasks provide for the mutual reinforcement thereof.