Tails by Matthew Van Fleet6/4/2023 Tactile books, with their touchable pictoral inserts, movable pull-tabs, and trite verbiage, are invariably intriguing to the preschool set and wearying to parents. There were even a couple of animals I'd never heard of! There's some new vocabulary but the illustrations really complement the descriptions at the end, it counts the animals and encourages kids to go back and make sure they're all there, which means identifying the different animals and counting them (up to 10). Each spread of double pages focuses on different kinds of animal tails, with interactive parts that kids can make move, flaps to open and some great detail in what the animals are getting up to. It also has great vocabulary, teaching animal names and also body parts, adjectives and verbs. It's a tactile book, with different textures to feel, and also has flaps and moving parts - unlike the pop-up books of my childhood, this one is very sturdy with very thick pages, so it looks like it will last longer under children's enthusiastic fingers! I saw this one in Chapters one day and had to get it - then I ordered one online and had it sent to my sister for my niece's second birthday.
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