Kick-start their learning and feed their imaginations with these interactive, richly-textured books, featuring colourful animals, expressive faces, noisy vehicles and lots of opportunities to play. With a focus on sensory development, they are designed for you to read and enjoy with your child – perfect for introducing them to the magical world of books.
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Best baby touch and feel books | Sensory books for babies & toddlers
Baby Touch: Faces: a black-and white-book
A great first book for very young babies, this wonderfully playful board book from the award-winning Ladybird Baby Touch series is designed to aid developing eyesight. In the very early years, babies see in black and white. As they develop they will also be able to see bright high-contrast colours, like yellow and red. This book uses clear, simple images based on those colours, encouraging babies to engage with the different faces and providing them with a rewarding, multi-sensory experience.
Baby Touch: Animals: a black-and-white book
Another of Baby Touch’s interactive books for babies, Baby Touch: Animals uses black-and-white patterns and high contrast colours to focus young babies’ attention and concentration. The friendly animal faces and subtly textured pages make this a very appealing book, inviting little ones to explore the pictures and stimulating their developing eyesight as they enjoy discovering all about farm animals.
With bold, bright colours and a touch-and-feel on every double page, Baby Touch: Feelings is perfect for sharing together, designed to stimulate your baby's senses while introducing them to first feelings! Read along with your little one and explore all kinds of emotions with this interactive board book - and look out for a mirror surprise at the end!
This interactive playbook is ideal for using during your baby's daily tummy time! Fold it out and let your baby explore the immersive world full of high-contrast colours, stimulating touch-and-feels and peepo holes. Once folded out and tied together with the ribbon, there are three bright, bold sections for your baby to play and explore, to encourage them to lift their head and reach and stretch towards the book!
Time for bed, sleepy baby - say night night to all the animals, plants and vehicles! Colours fade from light to dark throughout the book, until it's night time and time for baby to go to bed. With touch-and-feel patches, star-shaped peepo holes and gentle, calming text, this beautiful board book is perfect for soothing young children before bedtime.
Baby Touch: Opposites is a bold, bright board book ideal for little hands to explore. With high-contrast colours and touch-and-feels on every double page, this book helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first key opposites such as big and small, quiet and loud, and up and down!
This fun and tactile lift-the-flap picture book version of the classic children’s game peekaboo features bright, bold illustrations and a variety of inviting textures. It’s perfect for little hands to explore – young babies will enjoy the striking pictures, while older babies and toddlers can have fun discovering where the animals are hiding. Interaction and play are the name of the game with this book. Expect it to become a family favourite.
An innovative sensory book from the award-winning Ladybird series, Baby Touch: Playbook is a wonderful touch-and-feel experience for babies and toddlers. With lots of flaps to lift, even more bright, fun pictures to uncover and die-cut pieces on each page spread, this is a book that invites touch. Enjoy exploring with even the youngest babies as they learn about the world around them.
Introduce your little one to some friendly animals with this beautiful interactive tab book. With large touch-and-feel areas on every page, there’s plenty to discover and talk about. Which animal feels soft? Which one feels bumpy? Babies will have fun turning the pages using the animal-shaped tabs, while toddlers will enjoy expanding their knowledge as they are encouraged to find and name the animals. This is a wonderful touch and feel book for babies and toddlers, and makes a great first reading experience.
From bumpy wheels to shiny windows, the striking illustrations in this touch and feel tab book will be irresistible for little hands. Turn the pages using the vehicle-shaped tabs and encourage your older child to find and name all the different types of transport, featuring cars, trains, diggers, boats and even a helicopter. Babies will also enjoy the bright, fun pictures and large, tactile pages.
Stimulate your baby’s senses and introduce them to some new keywords with this lovely, playful little board book from Ladybird’s range of touch and feel books. With its fun and friendly pictures, bright, high contrast colours, and large touch and feel patches that invite discovery, this is a wonderful and engaging first words book for younger babies.
