[.ca] Textured Soft Shapes: Whose Back Is Bumpy? (ISBN 1584760400)

From Amazon.com:
Crinkled crocodiles, bumpy bullfrogs, scaly snakes, and rough rhinos! In this textured soft-foam book, very young readers get a feel for the hides of four different animals--without risking life or limb. Kids pop out the colorful nontoxic pieces to find the answers to riddles like this: "She slithers as she moves / On skin with tiny grooves. Whose skin feels like this?" No one can resist touching these lumpy-bumpy textures--it's a petting zoo in a book! The critters float--in fact, so does the entire book--so they're perfect for bathtime, not to mention bed, travel, or any old time. Check out High Tide, Dinos!, Rough Road, or any of the other textured titles in this terrific follow-up series to Soft Shapes. (Ages 1 to 4) --Emilie Coulter

Well Rounded - Fun *&* Educational!:
"Soft Shapes" books by innovative kids are wonderful! They're soft & easy to take along almost anywhere. They're colorful. They have large puzzle pieces - great for little hands. My 2 year old daughter loves these books & they're terrific for entertainment & learning! We work on reading/phonics/words, recognizing the shapes of the cutouts, colors of pages & cutouts, placing the puzzle pieces in the book correctly, counting items, animal sounds for the "Animals" book, textures & alliteration for the "Whose Back is Bumpy" book (love the frog page!), opposites for the "Big And Little" & "In And Out", plus other things. All the shapes from each book or all of the books combined can be used for play, such as creating a town, or a farm, etc. Each book is made of foam, so it's easy to wash & great for the tub or sticking to mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors, etc. There are so many possibilities with Soft Shapes Books! We can't wait to get all 4 mini's or the 2 new texture shapes - Dinos! & High Tide!

Sure to be a favorite:
Both my children love this book. At first, they just loved to pull out the puzzle pieces and feel the different textures. Then, they learned to put the puzzle pieces back in the book. Both kids love to carry this book around wherever we go -- they just love the way it feels and the bright colors. This book is always one of the most requested for reading... a toy and a book all wrapped up in one!