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Product:	That's Not My Train - Fiona Watt
Date:	16.04.08 (65 review reads)
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Advantages: great books

Disadvantages: a little pricey unless you find the bargains

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 lines with a small sentence that says... "That's not my Tractor...its engine is too bumpy" or something pretty similar to that telling what part of the train is there for touching and feeling.


The pictures on the pages are very bright and colourful and can easily grab the attention of a small child or baby. Jack is absolutely amazed by the pictures ad loves being able to touch and feel the different textures that make up the different parts of the trains. Each picture has something different about the train made onto a texture so on one page you are touching and engine on another you are looking and feeling what the trains mirrored windows are like.


Jack really enjoys this book. It is chunky enough for him to turn the pages himself and even though he can't read the words he is able to find what part of the train it is that is made from a different material and he loves to feel the different textures beneath his fingers or even to see his reflection is the shiny train windows.


This is his second favourite book in this series but of course you can't beat the book "That's Not My Lion" which is his absolute favourite. There are lots of books in this particular Touchy Feely series and I can see me buying a few more for Jack as he loves them so much. They cost just a penny under £5 which I feel is a little steep for a book with so few words and practically no storyline. But these truly are worth every penny. You can pick them up a little cheaper on the internet or the Early Learning Centre has a 3 for 2 offer on which makes them much more of a bargain.


Overall I think this book is totally great. The colours are bright and appealing the textures are different and interesting and Jack loves to feel that he is getting involved by being able to touch and to explore the book for himself. It being a board book I think it will last a very long while as it appears to be pretty hard wearing.


I would give this book and all the others that are in this same series a brilliant score of 10/10 and would highly recommend them to other parents of small children.

I hope this has been of some help to you, thanks for taking the time to read.


Other books in this series:
That's Not My Puppy
That's Not My Kitten
That's Not My Truck
That's Not My Dinosaur
That's Not My Bear
That's Not My Tractor
That's Not My Bunny
That's Not My Mermaid
That's Not My Teddy
That's Not My Train
That's Not My Dolly
That's Not My Lion
That's Not My Dragon
That's Not My Robot
That's Not My Fairy
That's Not My Car
That's Not My Reindeer
That's Not My Snowman

Summary: an alround gr8 book