My Soft-and-Cuddly Animals

by Xavier Deneux

The BabyBasics™ range encourages baby's first exploration of tactile and visual senses with books carefully keyed to the developmental stages of early childhood. BabyBasics™ books adapt to baby's changes in visual development, encourage tactile exploration, support hand-eye coordination, and develop a healthy sense of self-awareness.

A bold new board book with classic, high-quality touch-and-feel elements in a black-and-white color scheme, proven by research to be the most effective in capturing baby's attention. Carefully designed with a variety of different textures--from a kitten's smooth coat to a wolf's shaggy fur, there's lots of multi-sensory fun and exploration in this BabyBasicsTM title that will give little ones the perfect introduction to the joy of books!

Genres: Animals

12 pages, Board Book

First published September 15, 2015

About the author

Xavier Deneux studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He has worked as a graphic artist, creating posters and decorations for various industries, and has illustrated more than forty children's books. He lives and works in Paris, France.

Reviews

[Scott T.E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Daughter loves reading it over and over (I've taken the liberty to add animal sounds :p but I love the tactile art)

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Get ready for lots of rubbing of the book's pages and a lot of giggling if you share this book with a little one. Very young readers will enjoy learning the names of various animals, including a mouse, a cat, a mole, and a rabbit as they turn the pages in this book. Each animal is rendered in black or white and posed against a contrasting background. Thus, children can stroke the animals while learning their names. Even I enjoyed the tactile nature of this book, and I can certainly see how useful it might be to enhance coordination between eyes and hands. This is a nice change of pace from the very busy colors and patterns often found in books for very young children.

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good tactility and images both!