Originally published on my blog, Nine Pages.

This touch-and-feel book didn’t excite me very much. It’s touch-and-feel pages were not much more than a little bit of felt and this was not even on every page. Its plot takes the reader through the routine of waking up. Words are paired so that “wake up” is side by side with “sunshine” (one of its possible causes) and “breakfast” is paired with “yummy” (one of its possible reactions). Some of the illustrations are of anthropomorphized animals acting as a young toddler might, with a colt in a high chair, for example, while some are of animals acting as animals. Each page features a different animal, so the book could be used as a bestiary and will likely provoke exclamations of “horsey!” and “kitty!”