My First Farm Touch and Feel

by D.K. Publishing

There's nothing like a visit to a farm to stir all the senses. Children will love this "literary" jaunt through the barns and fields of an idyllic farm, with cows and lambs to stroke, bumpy tractor tires to feel, and straw and peaches to touch. Based on DK's popular My First Farm Book, the big board book features many of the same elements--crisply photographed, clearly labeled spreads on farm animals, vegetables, and machines—-but includes an interactive touch-and-feel component as well. Young readers will challenge their language development skills with farm-fresh vocabulary, from "duck" to "knobby corn on the cob" to "quad bike." Or they can just look at the colorful pictures and touch the various textures as they begin to identify the simpler images. This first-rate series also includes My First Word Touch and Feel. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals

Board Book

First published March 15, 1994

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Liz De Coster · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the more popular of our touch-and-feel books, the sheepdogs especially.

[Remi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not very interested in these animals.

[Cheyenne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lexi loves to feel the animals and say their names.

[Ian McHugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little addition to our reading from the George Ranch sensory pack. Lovely to see books scattered around heritage sites to enhance learning for little ones. Flo likes the toughness of the pig’s skin.

[The Book Box]

Mama read a version of this book with Braille overlay to my class in library for Braille Literacy Month.

[Remy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love touching the pages.

[Gabrielle Duke · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Farm, (Touch and Feel)," by Anne Millard is the perfect touch and feel picture book for ages one-four. This book has not won any awards so yet. This book gives children the chance to feel four different farm animals that include chicks, a dog, a lamb, and a pig. I chose to give this book a four star rating because although there are not many words on the page, they are very age appropriate. Many children learn through touch and applying multiple senses, which this book allows for. This book also helps children understand the different farm animals. This book did not receive five stars from me because I feel there should be more animals. I may use this book while working with children to introduce them to the animals and what they look or sound like!

[Grace Moore]

This is a great first book for a young infant. The pages are filled with bright colors and large text. This book introduces children to different animals, as well as the noises each animal makes. Each page of "Farm" contains different textures which stimulates a childs tactile sensation during reading time. This book can also be used with children with sensory issues. Since each page contains a different texture, the child can become more comfortable with touching the textures as they read the book, which may help them become less sensitive to textures within their environment.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 5 year old wants to know how this book is made...how do they get the different textures in the book.

[kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

solid, cute, touch and feel

[mairead!]

Ok enjoyed this and can see it growing very well with A... except I had to take away two stars because of my own personal texture issues combined with the last page and the bristly pig. Gotta keep it real, y'all.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This touch and feel book has quite a few things in it to touch. Lots of pictures of animals, farm equiptment and foods that come from farms.

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

I look at this one a lot and have learned the names of some of the animals.

[Aaron Wong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely textures!

[Professor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic but an okay book of it's type-a little board book with various textures on different animals for a baby to feel.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the touch and feel

[K Morlando · Rating 3 out of 5]

we loved reading this!

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 9mo Daisy loves this book! The dog and the sheep are her favorite textures in this book.

[Terralyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun textures and vivid colors that keep Scott entertained. We also do correlating animal sounds.