Baby Animals (DK Touch & Feel) (Board book)

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Product Description

What does a baby elephant's skin feel like? This touch and feel novelty book for the very young allows the child to explore the different textures of the cutest baby animals. One of a series of "Touch and Feel" books, "Baby Animals" features full-colour photographs of a range of animals accompanied by tactile patches to encourage the child to feel explore and touch all their different textures. Tough and sturdy for little hands to hold the simple text and bright pictures make the books ideal for a parent and child to share.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Board book: 12 pages
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (August 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751351423
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #410,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and cute book, Surprised no one's reviewed this yet, August 13, 2006

By	C. Poston "princessoftheking" (Columbia, MO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a sweet cute and short book. I'm surprised no one has review this yet. Our 9 month old picks this book out frequently for me to read to him (not as much as the black and white books, or the Sandra Boynton ones). He is slowly getting the idea of touching the cloth pieces that represent the animals on the pages. I think he likes the photos on the white background more than anything. He always smiles at the yellow ducklings.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Abrupt Ending, August 18, 2008

By	Lightman (New York) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Touch and Feel Baby Animals starts off with an enticing introductory invitation: "Come and see the baby animals".

The young reader (who presumably doesn't yet know how to read) can participate by feeling the texture patches embedded in pictures of the book's subject baby animals. ..

And so it goes.

"Stroke the SOFT baby rabbit".

"Scratch the ROUGH skin on the baby elephant's ears".

"Feel the FLUFFY yellow duckling".

"Touch the SMOOTH velvety calf".

In each case, the emphasized word draws attention to the texture of the surface that will be explored.

And then, without warning, "Tickle the FURRY baby gorilla".

And that's it. The book ends, jarringly and for this parent at least, unsatisfyingly.

The inclusion of an extra page saying something like "Baby animals are nice to touch" would have earned this book four stars, rather than the three which is all that I can muster for it in its present form.

5.0 out of 5 stars My nine month old boy's favorite book, October 4, 2009

By	In Memphis (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews

What a sweet book! My son loves this book, and smiles so BIG whenever we pull it out to read (which is pretty much morning, noon, and night). First he loved the baby bunny, but now the smooth velvety calf is his favorite. One day he touched the soft gray fur of the bunny, then picked up the gray stuffed animal sitting right next to us. It seemed like he made a connection...pretty neat! This is a book I would love to give to any new parent.