A first words book a baby can hold, turn and touch without any help. Baby Touch and Feel: First Words pairs bright photographs with simple labels, shoes, socks, butterfly, flower, cat and dog among them, and puts a texture or an eye-catching area on every page to pat, stroke and explore.

Each picture comes with a short read-aloud line that invites a response: spotted shoes, socks to count one and two, a butterfly going flutter, flutter, a sunflower that is so pretty, a cat that says meow and a dog that says woof, woof. Hearing the word, seeing the picture and feeling the page at the same moment is how early vocabulary starts to stick.

DK built it for small hands, with chunky padded pages a baby can turn alone, rounded edges and a compact size of about five and a half inches. Made for ages 0 to 2, it is the dependable baby shower or first birthday gift that gets read until it is loved to pieces.

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