Baby Touch and Feel: Animals
Baby Touch and Feel: Animals by DK takes under a minute to read aloud (30 words, about 0 sentences a page), and it lands best with children aged 0-2.
Measured read-aloud timeunder a minute
- Words
- 30our estimate, not a published count
- Sentences a page
- 0
- Re-read tolerance
- 4/5survives a fortnight on repeat
- Vocabulary
- 1/5plain words
Check Baby Touch and Feel: Animals on AmazonAffiliate link
The useful verdict
Why Baby Touch and Feel: Animals works
Photographic animals with one big texture patch each and a padded cover that survives being sat on. The patches are considerably larger than the Usborne ones, which matters when the hand doing the touching is a six-month-old's.
Before you buy it
Almost no text - it gives you nothing to say beyond naming, unlike the That's Not My books.
Themes: textures, animals, photographs, first books.
Same shape, new story
Books like Baby Touch and Feel: Animals
Matched by length, refrain, sentence density, and listener—not just subject.
Pat the Bunnyabout 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
That's Not My Dinosaur...about 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
Baby Touch and Feel: Farmunder a minute · 4/5 re-read
First 100 Animalsabout 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
Dear Zooabout 1 minute · 5/5 re-read
That's Not My Puppy...about 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
That's Not My Truck...about 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
That's Not My Unicorn...about 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
First 100 Wordsabout 1 minute · 4/5 re-read
Straight answers
Questions parents ask about Baby Touch and Feel: Animals
- How long does it take to read Baby Touch and Feel: Animals aloud?
- Under a minute at an unhurried pace, from a word count of 30. Reading it fast shaves perhaps a third off; stopping for questions on every page can double it.
- What age is Baby Touch and Feel: Animals actually for?
- Ages 0-2 in our testing, which is narrower than the publisher's range. With 0 sentences a page and vocabulary at 1 out of 5, it asks for that much attention span and no more.
- Does Baby Touch and Feel: Animals survive being read on repeat?
- Yes. It survives a fortnight of nightly repeats, which is the real test.
- Is Baby Touch and Feel: Animals a good book for a child who will not sit still?
- It helps that it asks the child questions to answer out loud. Those three features are what keep a wriggling toddler listening, far more than the subject matter does.