That's Not My Elf

That's Not My...

by Fiona Watt

A delightful touchy-feely book with simple, repetitive text, bright, colorful illustrations, and textures to touch and feel on every page.

Genres: Christmas, Childrens, Picture Books, Kids, Holiday, Fiction

10 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books.
Fiona graduated from Exeter University with a B.Ed. (Hons.), specialising in Psychology and Art and Design. After university she worked as a researcher and writer for a company which published educational material for places where children went on school visits (zoos, museums, stately homes etc). She then taught seven, eight, and nine year olds for five years; three years at a state school in Sevenoaks in Kent, and two years at The British School in the Netherlands in The Hague.

Having joined Usborne in 1989, Fiona became an editorial director in 2003, largely responsible for writing baby and novelty books, as well as art and activity titles. She has written over 100 titles for Usborne Publishing, perhaps most notably the, ‘That’s not my ….‘ touchy-feely series.

Reviews

[Scott]

Simple and repetitive for adults. Touch and freely for children.

[SBC]

I found this contribution to the 'That's Not My...' books a little weird - the pictures were great but I found referring the elves as 'it's a bit strange since they're clearly more people than animals. I'm trying to remember what the 'That's Not My Pirate' one did and I'm pretty sure that used he and she. It's probably well past time in English we started referring to any individual animate life forms (elves and animals included) as they!

[Maxwell Rae]

I’m really liking these Touchy Feely books. There are interactive and fun. Though I’m too young yet to have independent control of my fingers and prefer Tom scratch the page with all of them at once. Still it’s progress!

[Christina Reid]

Yet another for the Christmas Book Box / Book Advent Calendar. Yes, these books are repetitive, but they are great fun for littlies. My 4-year-old niece loves them because she can 'read' them easily, even without yet being able to decode all of the words.

[Megan]

This is a cute little book at my daughter (2.5yrs) really loves to look at and it great for spreading the holiday spirit. Its perfect as one of the books that she gets for her advent calender.

[Stacey Bookerworm]

My five month old loved the different textures in this book

[Lex Redding]

Really sweet elves.

[Luke Watson]

The textures are really popular and she likes to read this all year round.

[Danii]

This isn’t my favourite in the series as there is a little repetition and the ‘shiny’ isn’t something the child can really feel.

[Alyce Caswell]

Nothing special and very basic, but kiddo was intrigued by it and wanted to read it again immediately.

[Helen Aivazian]

I don't get the fascination with this series. There's no story and it's annoying. But my baby occasionally likes touching the feely parts.

[Katie Biscuit]

Came with a cuddly toy what's not to love !

[Kendra]

Somewhat repetitive- plot was all over the place.

[Amy James]

A present from great granny. She likes these books and likes to feel the feely bits with her fingers, feet and face.

[Kristen]

I got this as part of my hostess rewards from my Usborne party. It's a little old my daughter now that she's 2, but we plan to have another kid which is why i got this and a box set of "That's not my Zoo" with all the zoo animal books. But my daughter did enjoy this because it was an elf and it was Christmas time. While we read it, she did enjoy finding the spot on each page that had texture. She enjoyed it enough while we read it, but it hasn't been one of the books that she's picked up on her own. But I hear amazing things about babies loving this series and I can see why.

[Philip]

It’s been great for years as the kiddos are getting bigger.

This continues to be a winner. The touch and feel is great for the younger readers and the text is great for the 5yo that’s learning to read. (2020 update)

[Bookworm Blogger]

A bright and colourful picture book. My son particularly loves the button texture and the scratchy noise it makes.