TouchThinkLearn: Feelings

by Xavier Deneux

Overview

Part of the bestselling TouchThinkLearn series!

TouchThinkLearn: Feelings is a tactile board book with scooped-out die-cuts and raised elements that invites little readers to explore a range of emotions—from joy to anger—in a hands-on way.

• Made in the landmark TouchThinkLearn format—over 850,000 copies sold in the series
• Dynamic, tactile features make learning essential concepts fun and engaging
• Clusters of related words on each spread offer caregivers a springboard for conversations that foster language development

TouchThinkLearn: Feelings' inviting interactive format makes it a go-to book for introducing toddlers to a world of many emotions.

• Ideal for children ages 2 to 4 years old
• Perfect gift for baby showers, birthdays, holidays, and more
• Rich interactive story time full of learning and enjoyment

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781797203799
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	03/09/2021
Series:	Touch Think Learn Series
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	530,537
Product dimensions:	7.85(w) x 7.35(h) x 1.15(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

Editorial Reviews

Evocative, poetic expressions of various emotions wrapped in an innovative tactile package. . . . [TouchThinkLearn: Feelings is an] excellent way to broaden children’s preexisting emotional vocabulary.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2021-05-19
Evocative, poetic expressions of various emotions wrapped in an innovative tactile package.

It starts with the emotion “joy,” a raised, gloriously yellow die-cut chick cavorting on the left-hand page with a circular die cut serving as both a picture of a shining sun and a recess for the chick to fit into on the right. Though the book’s many raised and indented pieces fit together neatly, they aren’t always exact mirrors of each other—a neat touch. Each double-page spread offers a pair of word clusters, with (in the first one) a joy-inspired word bank first, followed by a second grouping that’s woven loosely together into a poem that actually carries a plot. In “sadness,” which details the “freeze • melt • puddle” demise of a snowman, the die-cut, drippy remains easily communicate the sense of “sob • snuffle • whimper.” Because feelings are so abstract and the vocabulary herein quite high level, with words like grit and cower, this may fly over the heads of the traditional board-book crowd, but perceptive preschoolers should enjoy the challenge of both the poems and the new language. Graphically simple shapes in bold colors are inviting, and some spreads, like one in which two “playful’’ squirrels caper opposite a teary “left out,” friend tell a perfect visual story. Most of Deneux’s risks pay off, like an angry red crayon accompanied by “exasperated” scribbles, but “surprise,” which confronts a mother duck and two ducklings with a hatchling alligator, concludes with an unsettling, conversation-starting “snap!”

An excellent way to broaden children’s preexisting emotional vocabulary. (Board book. 2-6)

Kirkus Reviews