- ISBN13: 9780152167738
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Tails are irresistible to toddlers–though most are beyond the reach of small hands. But now there’s reason for tail fans everywhere to rejoice: a colorful collection of tails created just for those eager toddlers to tug, pat, and even scratch and sniff!
Matthew Van Fleet’s lovable menagerie features furry tails, spiny tails, shiny tails, and tails that wag–all designed to inspire and withstand hours of interactive play. While pulling tabs and opening gatefold… Buy From AMAZON.COM >>
March 12th, 2010 at 11:58 am
A well-meaning friend gave us this book, along with a bunch of others, and all I can say is that the other ones were infinitely better. It’s true that our little girl (less than 2) is pretty keen on the book, but within a matter of months she had ripped out the waggling tails and I had grown very, very tired of the artist’s limited repertoire of facial expressions, jokes, limp rhymes and cutesy-cuddly anthropomorphic animals. A sign of how much it compels our own toddler is that by now, she is only interested in the (admittedly mildly impressive) peacock. Elsewhere, you too will get bored and irritated by the sheer repetitiveness of it all, not to mention the actually kind of nauseating smell of the scratch & sniff skunk’s tail.
There are a number of other books for very small kids that I would recommend more than this one. Judith Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’, for example, is a truly strange and mysterious story that our girl returns to over and over again. ‘Tails’, however, is a one-joke book which tries to be educational but which is meanwhile relentlessly inaccurate from a zoological point of view – if you’re going to show something about animals that doesn’t actually feature them as characters, you could at least show them behaving in something like the ways they really behave, instead of having lions cheerfully hanging out with porcupines. Avoid.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
My mother-in-law bought this book for my son last week. He absolutely loves it! He is 21 months old. He wants this book read to him several times a day and he is getting really good at identifying the animals and doing all of the “tricks” himself. It is nice that the book is so sturdy too…he isn’t exactly gentle! I would definately recommend this book to anyone with kids (or a kid at heart…I love it too!)
Rating: 5 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I’m 14 years old. I babysat at this kids house last night and she had this book. I think I liked it more than she did it was so cool. I love how all the tails feel! There was only one page I didn’t like and that was the skunk page it has a scratch and sniff thing and it acctually smells like a skunk it was pretty gross! But overall its a pretty cool book!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
We bought this book for our son while I was pregnant thinking it was really cute. He began expressing interest when we read to him at about 8 months old by reaching out and touching the pictures as we read. We started reading this to him and now he pushes it towards for it whenever we are reading, to get us to change books. His favorite page it “Frisky tails, Wag,Wag, Wag; and he tries to turn to that page alot! I think it’s pretty impressive that he understands reading time and is able to recall the book he wants to see. I assume we will get very tired of reading it before he out grows his fascination with all this book has to offer.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
My 1 year old LOVES this book. It’s his absolute favorite. I have to read it to him before bed every night or he won’t go to sleep. He won’t let me read anything else to him. I have to by another one because he ripped off the pig’s and fox’s tails. Everytime he gets to the skunk he says “pee yooo” and waves his hand. I highly recommend this book!
Rating: 5 / 5