Touch-and-Feel Farm

by Isabel Otter, Fhiona Galloway (Illustrator)

Overview

Learn and discover more than 50 farm words in this bright and busy book with fun textures to explore on every spread.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680105650
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Isabel Otter is a children's book editor and writer. She grew up in rural Herefordshire, and spent much of her childhood in trees. Isabel loves weaving stories and writing about the world around her.

Editorial Reviews

2017-07-02
A polar-bear parent speaks poetically of love for a child.A genderless adult and cub travel through the landscapes of an arctic year. Each of the softly rendered double-page paintings has a very different feel and color palette as the pair go through the seasons, walking through wintry ice and snow and green summer meadows, cavorting in the blue ocean, watching whales, and playing beside musk oxen. The rhymes of the four-line stanzas are not forced, as is the case too often in picture books of this type: "When cold, winter winds / blow the leaves far and wide, / You'll cross the great icebergs / with me by your side." On a dark, snowy night, the loving parent says: "But for now, cuddle close / while the stars softly shine. // I'll always be yours, / and you'll always be mine." As the last illustration shows the pair curled up for sleep, young listeners will be lulled to sweet dreams by the calm tenor of the pictures and the words. While far from original, this timeless theme is always in demand, and the combination of delightful illustrations and poetry that scans well make this a good choice for early-childhood classrooms, public libraries, and one-on-one home read-alouds. Parent-child love and affection, appealingly presented, with the added attraction of the seasonal content and lack of gender restrictions. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews