I think you mean Wacom. And if we're talking about Wacom than you should get a Bamboo. It's the one I have and it is a good tablet for beginners.
If you get the Bamboo "Fun" version it usually comes with some basic digital painting/photo editing software. (For example mine came with Photoshop Elements 5.0, Corel Painter Essentials 3 and some other thingy.)
A Graphire4 would be a good tablet too, they're the ones my graphic design clas.s uses.