Never Touch a Porcupine!
You must never touch a porcupine . . . unless it's in this book! This adorable touch-and-feel board book is great for children of all ages and fits perfectly into tiny hands. Kids will love reading the silly rhymes that warn the dangers of touching the woodland animals--and then ignoring the advice!
Children of all ages, 0 and up, will enjoy:
- The innovative and engaging silicone touch-and-feel features on every spread
- The bright and vibrant illustrations
- The silly and easy-to-read rhymes that involve the woodland animals
- Receiving this fun book as a birthday gift, stocking stuffer, Easter basket goody, road trip activity, or just because
Parents and their little ones will enjoy reading aloud Never Touch a Porcupine again and again.
If your child enjoys Never Touch a Porcupine, check out the rest of the Never Touch … series: Never Touch a Polar Bear, Never Touch a Shark, Never Touch a Spider, Never Touch a Dinosaur, Never Touch a Dragon, Never Touch a Monster, and Never Touch a Tiger.
Reviews (178)
Fear-Based, Negative Book for Babies
The textures in the book are cute and fun for my 11 month old. She played with this book all day when I first gave it to her. The silicone that the textured parts are made out of though are very sticky, and tiny little hairs from carpet, clothing, what have you get stuck in them (primarily the front cover). More than anything though, and I’m not a mom who is overly sensitive, but I found this book to be extremely negative. For example, the first page reads, “You must never touch a porcupine, he’s not a fluffy cat, he’ll spike you with his giant quills and then that will be that.” The rest of the book goes on to warn you that squirrels will pelt you with acorns, and all of the other animals you shouldn’t touch will do something bad to you as well if you try to touch them. I mean, obviously i don’t advocate for my child touching porcupines either, but the whole theme is just rather negative and fearful for a book targeted at babies. Now given, my baby doesn’t understand these words, but I definitely wouldn’t want to read this book to a young child who could take these things literally. There is simply no need to base a baby board book around the concept of “you better not do this, or else you will be hurt!” I mean... come on.
Silicone Activity Board Book
This is not my favorite book in the series but my son loves these books.
All the "feel" parts are the same type of material
My baby plays with the quills of the porcupine and really enjoys it but the only thing I don't like is that all the "feel" parts of the book are the same material just made into different shapes creating an illusion of different textures so that was dissappointing.
Decent but definitely not the best one
My kids love the books but this one is not as good. The last one is “you must never touch a prickly folk” which is odd to me, and it shows a picture of a fox 🤔
Absolutely yes!
Super cute book! My baby loves the colorful characters and words! A great sensory book to read to your baby!
Sticky pages
Loved the textures, but reading the book the first time, I found pages sticking together and peeling from the edge to the middle. Not the quality I expected.
The porcupine texture rocks!
My 10-month-old child loves this book! He gets excited every time I pull it out for bedtime, although he keeps on trying to turn it back to the cover page so he can feel the spikes on the porcupine. All of the inner pages with pictures have animals with textured silicon, but the texture is more subtle than the front - probably so the book can still close and is a reasonable thickness.
CUTE!
These books are ADORABLE! My 1 year old loves petting the animals even though the book clearly states to NEVER touch! :) The textures are interesting for little hands to explore and the colors are bright and eye catching. The rhymes are short and cute. The books are sturdy enough for him to carry everywhere and still be in decent shape. I've given these as gifts to friends/family with babies and every single one of them have loved them. I have bought 3 of these books and will be purchasing the others too.
Busted after 2 days
My son was excited when I showed him this book, he is 14 months old and is very into the touchy books with rubber/silicone. So why the 2 stars? Well we got the book on the 10th and it is now the 12th and he has already ripped 2 pages out of the book. We have had the Toot/Tooth/Tubby books for months and months with barely a scratch, but 2 days of this book and the spine is busted and pages are ripped. Maybe better for older kids.
Needs simpler sentences
The pages are fun to explore. The language is a little too much for a board book. Simple, short sentences are better for toddlers but the words are more poetic/abstract/not directed towards toddler comprehension.
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