Booktouch books
Great books to share with blind or partially-sighted children. The Booktouch booklist aims to give you more book suggestions for children up to the age of five, based on ideas given to us by parents, teachers, the RNIB, ClearVision, children and other experts.
Great books to share with blind or partially-sighted children. The Booktouch booklist aims to give you more book suggestions for children up to the age of five, based on ideas given to us by parents, teachers, the RNIB, ClearVision, children and other experts.
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The Patch
Justina Chen Hedley
Becca has amblyopia and needs to wear both glasses and an eye patch to strengthen her weak eye.
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Annie Kubler
With great illustrations and great rhymes, this is part of a wonderful series of strong bright books
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There Was an Old Lady Who...
Pam Adams
One of the Classic Books-with-Holes that have been around for 30 years.
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Textures
Emily Bolam
One of the new 'Bumpy Books' range, these simple board books feature bright colours and lightly embossed surfaces.
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The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle
The classic story of the busy spider in a touch and feel board book format.
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The Elves and the Shoemaker
Emma Dodd
The classic fairy tale story in a simple and accessible format.
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Baby Shapes
Helen and Clive Dorman
Four highly stimulating books featuring a range of shapes and facial expressions.
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First Cot Book
Andy Everitt-Stewart
Small but perfectly formed, this is a great first book for your baby's cot.
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Faces
John Fordham
High-contrast patterns, faces and mirrors are always a winning combination.
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Ten Little Ladybirds
Melanie Gerth
Children will love joining in the rhythmical text and touching and counting the ladybirds as their numbers dwindle.
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Spot's Fun Day
Eric Hill
Join Spot on a trip to the fair. A board book with lively pop-up components and buttons to press for sound effects.
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Bathtime peekaboo!
Dorling Kindersley
A colourful, waterproof, touch and feel, lift-the-flap book designed to help develop sensory, thinking and memory skills.
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What's the Time, Mr Wolf?
Annie Kubler
A captivating story of wolves with dinner on their minds.
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Shiny Flower
Ladybird
Babies will enjoy the squishy, padded pages and the noisy shaker.
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Love From Woolly
Nina Michaels and Nicola Smee
In this original picture book, each page describes something Woolly has knitted.
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Nursery Rhymes
Priddy Books
A large board book of over 20 nursery rhymes. Each is illustrated with bold, embossed images.
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Rattle Cloth Book: Colours
Roger Priddy
An ideal interactive book for almost any baby
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Baby ABC
Roger Priddy
A touch and feel alphabet book, featuring simple rhyming text.
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Noisy Car
Roger Priddy
From the Bright Baby series, this book shows bright primary-coloured pictures of cars and three buttons to press for noises of a starting engine.
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Millie Cow
Roger Priddy
One of the Funny Faces series, this combines touch and feel patches with googly eyes, holes to poke fingers through and a noisy surprise at the end.
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My First Sound and Picture Book
Oliver Tallec
32 different objects feature in this board book, each with a matching sound on the accompanying CD.
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Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars
Debbie Tarbett
A tactile book which is ideal for learning to count from ten down to one.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Geraldine Taylor and Jillian Harker
A fun introduction to counting.
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Baby Boo!
Templar
Fun, rhyming text, bright colours and bold patterns on a sturdy board book.
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That's Not My Kitten...
Fiona Watt
Interesting textures and shapes for inquisitive fingers to explore
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Happy Baby
Fiona Watt, Shelagh McNicholas
Move in time to the music with this lovely board book
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