Animals

by Dawn Sirett

Teach your baby all about animals with touch and feel textures Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about animals. Let their little hands roam and feel how soft and cuddly kittens are but how scaly the lizard feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Genres: Animals, Childrens, Picture Books, Kids, Cats, Fiction

14 pages, Board book

First published February 1, 2008

Reviews

[Aneesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently this book tastes great.

[Mallory · Rating 1 out of 5]

So the little guy is in an animal kick now so off to the library we go. This was one of four we brought home and by far the worst of the bunch.

1. Not every "touch" aligns with the animal. The kitten you touch a ball of yarn, the tiger you touch grass, and the elephant you touch water. Huh? I thought you were supposed to touch the animals?

2. The baby animal names are not uniform either. It starts out great with kitten and puppy. We then get tiger cub (ok) and baby monkey. Wait... a baby monkey is called an infant. Also there is an elephant (not an elephant calf), a penguin (not a penguin chick), a butterfly (which was the most confusing because it is a caterpillar), fish (not a fry), then a starfish, rabbit (not bunny), and snail. Why the difference in nomenclature?

3. The secondary text above each of the pictures is also inconsistent. It is either a sound the animal makes (meow! Woof woof!), a descriptive characteristic (covered in stripes! Five long legs!), an action the animal is taking (licking his nose!), or a sound associated with the action of the animal (splash splash!, waddle waddle! Flutter flutter!) Again, why not consistency?

By far the worst animal book we have read. My favorite is Parenting Magazines Sounds: clear, realistic pictures, clear sounds, same text on each page, and two different colors or breeds of each animal on the page to help baby begin to generalize terms. Much clearer for babies and is the one he reaches for to read. This one he mainly uses as a tether, which in that capacity is wonderful.

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute, but some of the "touch" bits seem to be odd choices.

EDIT: This became the baby's favourite book for a month and it gave me soooo much time to myself. Rating updated.

[Marissa 🩷📖 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book lacked the basics of a simple story structure which left me feeling unbalanced and unsatisfied- especially when reaching the unresolved ending.

[cody · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five long arms!

[Ronan Crutchfield]

I loved feeling all the textures on the pages. I cooed a lot when mom made monkey noises on the baby chimpanzee page!

[Alisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book for my son's reading time. I thought this book would be perfect for getting him to learn textures and start feeling different things. It was. I love seeing his reaction to feeling some of them.

[Mort's Kids · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is mostly what it says but, is it baby animals or just animals that were at some point babies? It's a bit inconsistent, and the actual touchable thing varies in quality.

So, I dunno. It's fine. It's a book with some words and some textures.

[Harlow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excited to learn to touch and feel. I love animals.

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blub blub

[Katie Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Licking his nose!

[Jenna White · Rating 3 out of 5]

A touch and feel board book. 3 stars because it's a cute book to teach baby some animals, but the "touch and feel" is not very good.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

When my son got in his touch & feel phase, this was a massive hit. The bummer is that some pages kind of skimp on creativity with the touchable parts and he knows it. Sometimes we have to skip those pages BUT this book is a winner because it taught him his first animal sounds that he recognized and could repeat back to us: blub blub for fish & Oh Ah for monkey.

[Wench · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Baby Touch and Feel" is technically true, but that doesn't mean it's well done here.

*Four out of twelve animals/insects have the exact same texture.
*Some of the animals don't even have a texture on them - for example, the kitten, you touch a ball of yarn, and the snail, you touch the snail's trail.
*Some of the textures are phoned in - like that snail's trail. It's just slightly indented in to the page. The elephant, spraying water? Some of the water is sparkly and slightly indented and that's what you touch. The zebra? You can barely feel the stripes.
*The coolest one is the starfish, which is all bumpy, except that the arms and bumpy parts are so narrow, you have trouble feeling them, even with little fingers.

The only reason this isn't a one-star is because yes, we have read it through. But we don't like it.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Devin got this book in his easter basket, and he really likes it. There are surprisingly a lot of textures in this book for being a DK Baby touch-and-feel (they usually just seem to have a few). Devin gives it a thumbs-up.

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

All in all an ok book. I do wish that fish and starfish were not on the same spread. My 1 year old gets a bit confused when I ask her to point out the fish. I'm sure she'll figure it out, but it would have been better to have these further apart in the book

[Ratforcekids]

DK Publishing has lots of animal books for little ones. This particular book is a Touch & Feel book that children love! Real pictures of animals always make learning about animals easier and DK is an expert at this.

[Josiah · Rating 1 out of 5]

The textured animals are a good sensory experience for the very young or the very old.

[Abby · Rating 5 out of 5]

My one year old love this book, shes loves feeling the "bunny"

[Brecka]

From the Bordens

[Voracious_reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for an infant/toddler who loves animals. There's something textured on every page; however, most are pretty similar.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tastes good to baby but not enough differentiation in animal textures.

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

My daughter loves this book. I'd prefer it were actually consistent with whether it was using baby animals or adult animals and with their noises.

[Jon Feeley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Prett awful..."five long legs"?!?! Get out of here

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

what a read. i read this to my little brother and he wasn’t enthralled, but boy was i! who knew that the puppy goes woof woof?! amazing writing.

[Christy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A small touch and feel book full of cuddly bunnies and other soft animals, this is a gift your little one is sure to adore.

This USA Today bestselling board book encourages tiny fingers to explore and develop fine motor skills while building an early language foundation. Babies will meet adorable puppies, kittens, penguins, and other animals throughout the pages of the book.

Filled with real-life animal photographs featuring touch-and-feel textures that help children develop their knowledge while increasing their use of senses, Baby Touch and Feel: Animals is the perfect size for small hands. Its padded cover can withstand biting and throwing while its thick sturdy board pages won't tear. Your baby can practice animal recognition and perfect animal noises while touching the novelty textures on the pages.

With more than one million copies sold, Baby Touch and Feel: Animals is the perfect book for your child's bookshelf.

Series description: Baby Touch and Feel books are the perfect series for the very youngest readers. These small, padded books excite babies and toddlers with their foil and touch-and-feel covers. Each book in this affordable series contains twelve vibrant interior pages with bold, engaging images. Containing large word labels, each page has foil or glitter to behold or a texture to touch. These safe novelty textures intrigue babies and are perfect for little fingers to feel. The Baby Touch and Feel series encourages sensory development, language skills, and early reading skills while teaching colors, shapes, patterns, opposites, and more.

[Ali Book&Seaglasshunter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even though my daughter is almost five she still loves a little touch and feel book once in awhile, mainly the ones with cute baby animals. She picked this up at the library and was happy that she could read some of it.
Personally I did not think this was great as far as touch and fee books go. There was not much of a variety in textures (a few fuzzy/soft, a few smooth/slippery, and one bumpy). Some of the pages were more of a visual based “texture” with shimmery parts, and these don’t really add to something that is supposed to be “touch and feel” to me.
Most annoying, there was no consistency in the book, which was especially confusing to my daughter who was trying to remember and recite each page. Some animals are called by their baby names (puppy, kitten, cub), some are not (rabbit, penguin). Others are not clearly babies (starfish? Butterfly?). And the extra text on each page varies between animal noises and short facts. It just took away from the books value as a whole to have such a lack of uniformity on the pages, for no reason.
One positive for the book was that it is slightly longer than many of these kind, I often feel like the usual 6 pages are a bit too short, even for the youngest readers.

[Miriam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is BULLSHIT. Absolute laziness on every page:
- Some animals are baby animals (kitten! puppy! baby chimpanzee!) and some are grown-ass adults, honestly it's whiplash sometimes to read this out loud.
- The kitten meows and the puppy barks, but the elephant splash squirts water (???!!!) and the tiger fucking LICKS GRASS??? What is the theme here??
- Not all textures are equally satisfying. The aforementioned baby chimpanzee has luxuriously fluffy fur that my offspring loves to grab and rip out with glee, but the tiger grass (whyyy) doesn't feel like anything and the snail slime trail is physically and tactilely invisible. What's the point even.
- No reptile representation what a colossal waste

This book has about twelve words total. The author had to put in truly the barest minimal level of effort to make this decent, and she couldn't even be bothered. Save your money, get something with a coherent theme. Ashamed to read this to my child but she does love the chimpanzee fur so I have no choice but to acquiesce.

[Sarah Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genre: Nonfiction - Concept Book
Awards: None
Audience: Ages 0-3 years
A. The topic of this book is different types of animals.
B. This book is made child-friendly through the minimal words used on each page as well as the touch feature of the book. For every animal, there is a small portion of the animal where the children can feel the texture of the animals.
C. In this book, some text features include a photograph of each animal and a caption on each page showing what kind of animal is pictured.
D. This book can be used as a tool at home as well as in preschool to familiarize early readers with different types of animals, the sound they make, and what they feel like.

[Rachel Hoover · Rating 5 out of 5]

I gave this book 5 stars because its really very simple every page is dedicated to one animal and then there is a matching picture and part of it is what the animal would actually feel like. This is a book for babies (as indicated in the title) but its really such a simple but very educational book. Its important for our children to know what animal is which and to be familiar with them and that is exactly why this book was written it focuses on the animals and helping children perfect the names and what they look they and associating them together.