Customer Reviews

Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

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4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

She loves these books because they have soft things to touch and are a quick read! Her attention span is short and this is one word to a page. so i can read quick while she flips!:) I wish there were something to feel on every page. Some pages have just the picture but it's a great book for little kids.

Absolutely adorable photos of a cat, puppy, tiger cub, baby monkey, zebra, elephant, penguin, butterfly, fish, starfish, bunny, etc. all entice little fingers to experience textures and to hear first words associated with them. What a fun and clever learning experience!

Even the book's padded cover adds to the sensory delights. I can't imagine a cuter first book about animal friends to entice babies to explore the world around them.

Great little book!

My 12-week-old daughter loves this book. The bright colors and photographs of animals catch her attention when I put her in the playyard for a nap, and she looks at the book until she falls asleep. She's just learning to grasp things now and often grabs the book, although the touch and feel parts are a little beyond her at the moment. A friend of mine told me her daughter really liked books with photographs more than illustrations, and my girl seems to like photographs more, too.

I really like all the DK books, and I'm not surprised their touch and feel books are some of the best board books out there for infants.

This book was on my niece's registry/wishlist, so I got it for her first birthday. I was SO disappointed in it. The spaces to "touch and feel" are so small, and most of them aren't even realistic. For example, the kitten is playing with a ball of yarn, and the yarn is supposed to be the "feel" part, but it's filled with faux fur. Yarn isn't furry. How hard would it have been to just put a piece of something knitted in there? Even felt would make (slightly) more sense than fur. In fact, most of the ACTUAL touch and feel areas were filled with various colors of that same faux fur. I say "actual touch and feel areas" because literally half of the pages have nothing to FEEL on them. Sure, there is a visual texture change, but a metallic sticker/reflective tape doesn't have a different feeling to the touch from the high gloss coating on the rest of the page. Zebras don't have sparkly stripes. Grass isn't glittery either (any reason why a small bit of indoor/outdoor carpeting wouldn;t have worked on that page?). The "feel" spaces on the zebra and elephant pages were so small that I had to squint to even try and FIND them, let alone being able to FEEL anything. The ONLY page in this book that I can give a thumbs-up is the starfish (but even then, it only gets one thumb, not two, because the textured area is SO small). I'd give a thumbs up to one of the fuzzy animal pages if they weren't all more or less exactly the same. To sum up this book in four words: Epic Fail. Total Waste.

Touch-and-feel books are a real hit with my son. He loves being able to feel different textures while looking at the pictures. So I figured he would love this animal touch-and-feel book--and he does. The fact that he gets animal sounds (from me) along with pictures and along with textures means this has become his favorite book to read. You just can't go wrong with this one!

The "Squishy" duck button is flat so there is no tactile experience there except frustration. The rest of the "feely" inserts were excellent. I'm debating if I want to return it or not. Disappointing.

This book is small, so the pages that actually have material to "touch and feel" (not all of them do) are, at most, a square inch and that's being liberal. Other books of this type have larger patches.

My 8-month-old loves two of the DK Touch and Feel books he received as Christmas presents, so I ordered him 4 more (including this one) this week. I thought getting the "new edition!" would be a good thing but I am very disappointed. There are not really very many items that are textured, and the textured areas are tiny--he barely notices them. The older editions we have are slightly larger books, seem to have larger "feely" areas and the "feely" parts are more fun. There were a lot in here that are not really textures, just different material (shiny or sparkly). I am actually going to take the loss on shipping these back because I was so disappointed and would rather get him books he will really get into.

I purchased this book because I thought it was a touch a feel book. There are only a few pages with touch and feel elements and the rest of the pages are just like any other book. Plus the pages that do have touch and feel are such small parts that a small child might miss finding it. It also has random "animals" in it like a star fish, gold fish and snail. It was a disappointment and I wouldn't recommend it.

I was VERY disappointed with this purchase. The Baby Touch and Feel names is very misleading. There was little to no texture on the pages. There were four (4) pages with fuzzy, furry stuff. There was six (6) pages with a shiny,slick metal textur. THERE IS NOTHING TO TOUCH OR FEEL! If I saw this book in the book store, I would not have made the purchase. I expected to feel a variety of textures, which didn't happen. I also bought the Baby Touch and Feel "Bathime" book and was equally disapointed