Never Touch a Porcupine!

I purchased Never Touch a Porcupine for my daughter, and she absolutely loves it! We had received other books from the Never Touch series as gifts from my mother-in-law, and she enjoys all of them. These books are very interactive because each page has different textures to touch, which makes reading more engaging for toddlers. The amount of text is just right — not too much, so it’s perfect for little ones with short attention spans. The illustrations are colorful and fun, and the variety of textures adds an extra sensory experience. My daughter loves exploring every page, which is why I decided to purchase more books from this series. I highly recommend the Never Touch books to anyone with a toddler — they’re fun, educational, and perfect for keeping little ones interested!

If your baby loves to touch everything, this book is for them. Each page has fun colorful pictures with soft items for them to touch. Our granddaughter was highly entertained and loved touching each page.

I'm a librarian who is buying this whole set of books (with my own money, so slowly!). I have some other tactile books but these are a favorite. I am buying them for one student (age 11) so they can be included in book time but I noticed that the non special ed students really like them too. This was surprising since they seem like toddler books. I suspect this is because the text is meant for an adult to read to a toddler but for self-reading, it's at a higher level. The books are sturdy but still not library-standard. (no books at that price point ever are) They last about a year. Depending on where they break, they can be hard to repair.

My baby (9 months) loves these books! It keeps him entertained for awhile. We brought it on an airplane trip and it helped distract him for quite a bit.

This is the cutest book for any little one learning about animals and reading. The textures on the pages are great to touch, as well. Super cute and durable book. Not easily broken. The book has strong wooden pages, too.

Such a great book! The different textures on each page keep things interesting. It's also well put together, nothing has come loose or broken unlike many other hands on books.

There is a whole series of these “Never Touch A” books, and my toddler adores them! These books are suitable for babies 0+ but your small toddlers are going to go whacky over these. I don’t think I first introduced this book until my son was about 14 months old, now he’s almost 19 months and he brings me one of these books several times a day. We now have Never Touch a Porcupine, Monster, Grumpy Bat, Panda, Dinosaur, and Dragon, because I was tired of reading the same book all day long. Each page has a rubberized textured part of the animal for the child to feel and explore. My toddler loves flipping through the pages before I can even finish reading them. When I DO get to read the entire page, my only complaint is that the type font changes too much. It’s big bold colorful stylized fonts mixed with small narrow cursive every few words, which looks very cute and communicates emphasis, but it makes the book a bit difficult to read when holding it at different angles for the toddler to see, especially if you’re reading it upside down. By this point, I have most of the pages memorized anyway, but my other concern is that as my toddler gets older and is learning to read, he’ll unfortunately have difficulty learning to read along to his favorite Never Touch A books, because quite a lot of the words are in cursive, and it’s the same for every book in this series. I think the books could achieve the same visual effect with a block type font that would be easier for everyone to read. Other than that, I still will continue to buy these types of books. The board books are pretty durable and hold up to lots of abuse. Porcupine is the one we’ve had the longest and is in the worst shape by far. I’ve just reinforced the spine and some of the pages with packing tape and it is still perfectly usable. I bought another copy as a gift for a friend’s baby shower and she loved it.

I love this series and if you have not looked at the other books to the series, you should I highly recommend it. All of these books are great touch and field books and they have a funny story with them. It keeps little kids occupied throughout the whole story usually

Es un libro didáctico, con figuras y texturas diferentes. Es una version en inglés. Es de pasta dura y se siente la calidad. Mi hijo tiene 3 años y los disfruta muchisimo. 100% recomendable. El precio de$144.00 MXN fue un acierto, sin duda sirvió muchísimo.

This book is so great texture wise and so fun for the kids to touch and read at the same time.

I love this line of book-story it was recommended by my baby’s occupational therapist to explore touching although the book material is very easy to rib.

Good for kids who like to touch and feel

Cute book, my baby (6m old) really likes it, touches it unlike other books with textures... I also liked the silly and funny text inside the book that rhymes! It's worth the money, good to have as touch&feel book option for your baby, since it's different from fluffy books.