That's Not My Train - Fiona Watt

Harry's latest obsession (yes another one, they never stop do they?!) is transport. Buses, lorries, cars, trains - you name it, he loves it. He is also a very keen reader at the moment, often fetching ALL of his books from his bedroom down to the sitting room for me to read to him in the morning when we're at home. So when we were browsing the library and I spotted this one in the board books section, I knew he would love it, and promptly checked it out to take home with us. That's Not My Train is part of the well-known children's touchy-feely book series by Usborne. All the book are written by Fiona Watt, and this one is illustrated by Rachel Wells. There are ...  Read the complete review

That's Not My Train..........by Fiona Watt Another great book that hardly has time to grace our shelves because its always in Jack's little chubby hands! Usborne books have this brilliant series called Touchy Feely Books and this book is from that very series. The book is a very chunky board book and the pages are made very easy for small fingers to turn them. Each page has a different drawing of a train on and there is something unique about each one. The train on the front cover has a bumpy engine and you are able to touch the engine and feel all the rough grooves that are protruding out. Each page continues along the same ...  Read the complete review

Cashing in on the childhood obsession with trains (mostly thanks to Thomas there), the That's not my series has gone train crazy with this release. Basically, you're looking through a bunch of trains for your own one, and each is the wrong one for a specific reason. The reason it's the wrong one (e.g. it's wheels are too slippery) is a part of the picture that you can touch. The touch bits are either slippery, or nobbly and fluffy and that sort of thing. At just ten pages it's a short book, but I have to say it's one of my son's favourites, particularly as it contains 5 or 6 different trains in it. Each page is a different colour, and the ...  Read the complete review

I haven't these books out for a while but since Elijah is getting older and a little more interested in looking at books I decided to re live the days of old and read some of them to him and Noah. This story is one in a series by Usbourne. It is written by Fiona Watts and illustrated by Rachel Wells. The unique thing about this book and all of the others within this series is the story actually begins on the front page. There is a very nice picture of a big train. Above it, it says 'Thats not my train...' which is the title of the book and printed onto the body is a reason why it's not the right train. This is a recurring theme throughout the ...  Read the complete review

This book was chosen by my husband for our son (aged 15 months). He wanted to buy it full price (£4.99) but being the money saving scrooge I am I persuaded him to go home and buy it cheaper on Amazon. He thought he would like it as he's into his (real) trains. The book is a lovely simple format which is repeated throughout the 'That's not my .. series'. There are approximately 6 trains, 5 are negative 'That's not my train' and the last one is positive 'That's my train'. Each one has a descriptive sentence about a feature of the train e.g 'It's windows are too shiny'. The pictures are simple and uncluttered in bright colours. There is a toucy element to each ...  Read the complete review