That's Not My Fire Engine...

by Fiona Watt

An exciting new title in the best-selling touchy-feely series.
Turn the pages to discover the fire engines with their bumpy doors, squashy wheels and sparkly lights as they speed through the pages of this sturdy board book. Babies and toddlers will love exploring the different tactile patches, as well as spotting the familiar little white mouse.

10 pages, Hardcover

Published March 2, 2023

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

[Castor · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the books in the series use a similar, limited vocabulary. Overall, the textures in this book (e.g., bumpy roll-up doors, a metallic ladder, reflective stripes, and rubbery hoses) are better selected than those in the animal books or most other vehicle books. And the reason for touching the parts to distinguish the vehicles makes more sense, since the fire engines look too alike to tell them apart visually... It would be better if the parts were more specifically named, e.g., squishy tyres instead of wheels.

[Amanda Schwind · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 22-month-old daughter also liked looking for the mouse on each page.

[Fatima Seraj Alam · Rating 5 out of 5]

The addition of a mouse in each page engaged my three year old along with different tactile surfaces.

[Lyra Maine · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 8 month old loves the textures