Baby Touch and Feel First Words - Board Book

Lovely big book, chunky pages are great for little hands. It's well made and nice bright colours and shiney elements that catch my son's attention. This is the only book I've ever been able to sit and read properly with my son who is now 11 months old. With other story books he has snatched them away, bashes the pages, rips them or turns pages back again so we can't follow the story. We like that it is just one picture/word on each page. This has made it so he can hold the book and turn the pages to the page that he wants to look at. He touches the picture and I read the word of the picture he has chosen. This is so much better for us as he is happy holding the book and he is becoming familiar with the words. I feel one word per page is easier for him at this stage rather than having multiple pictures/words to confuse him or a bigger story that we can't follow as he wants to turn the pages back and forth. Much more relaxing being able to read but led by him. So I'm very happy that we've found this book and we've ordered another 'Baby Touch and Feel' book as he really enjoys it.

DK (Dorling Kindersley) is usually a guarantee of best quality. This one follows in that it a robust, well-produced book with wipe clean surfaces throughout the 12 pages. However, the 'Touch and Feel: First Words' part of this production is disappointing. "Butterfly" seems a very long word for a baby to learn. The 'Touch and Feel' areas are exceedingly small parts of images & I have doubts as to whether a baby could find the areas, even when shown. The cat's whiskers, one of the areas, are very thin, fine indents in the page. Material 'Touch and Feel' areas are so small that I only found some of them by moving a finger across the images & they all feel much the same when I do find them. I doubt if a baby would comprehend any difference between them & the rest of the page. Some of the areas are just a tiny piece of shiny paper inserted, which feels the same as the rest of the page. I had hoped for much larger areas of very different textures but this book is a poor production in content.

Well my grandson loves this book, he also has a number book from the same make and loves that. He recognises the pictures and knows where they are, but he loves the texture so much more!! Only thing is he puts everything in his mouth so the corners of the book are blistering, but it doesn’t affect the usage of the books

For some reason I expected more from this book. It's not great but it not too bad neither. It's still better than not reading to baby at all but personally I prefer the baby touch books by lady bird. There's abit more for your baby to engage in and also it's abit more babyfied, as in, in this book for example there's a picture of an empty bowl and spoon, underneath it says bowl and spoon, above it says all gone, and that's it. Nothing to touch, no exciting pictures, just an empty bowl. My daughter was quick to turn the page, whereas the DK my first words let's get talking is great. My baby thrives off learning and the book is full of exciting pictures and words making her all the more eager to learn. I would recommend this book if you are building a collection but if you want specific books to help educate your child there's better first word books on the market.

Hardly anything on each page for babies to feel. Most pages have a slight change to the picture and only one page where you can noticeably see the touch bit. Thought it would be a lot better so really disappointed with it.