Baby Einstein: Baby MacDonald on the Farm: Giant Touch and Feel Fun!

What a wonderful touch and feel book. It is not the same texture over and over again! My son loves the sticky mud and the pig skin the most. We have purchased Violet's House as well with many more textures. It takes us a long time to read the book as my son wants to stop on every page and play with each texture. Thank you once again Baby Einstein!

We have this book for our 20-month-old daughter, who loves anything with a farm theme. I have purchased all the Baby Einstein things I can find with a farm theme, and this is the best. She loves to feel the textures, especially the sheep, her favorite. The sheep is at the very end and is the fluffiest animal in the book, which is a treat for babies to pet. These products are all wonderful, but this particular book, because of its large size, is perfect. I also love the poems in the book...the text really places an importance on the role animals play in our lives.

My son is 16 months old and he LOVES this book! He chose it in the store several months ago (actually, he grabbed the book and began to eat the horse's hair...needless to say, we didn't have much choice about buying it!) and it has been his favorite book ever since. He pulls this book from his basket almost daily and loves to touch the "feelies." The rhythmic bounce of the text and repetition of the animal names aid in animal recognition and help develop verbal and auditory skills. The text also includes a plethera of wondefully descriptive phrases for vocabulary enrichment. Kids are never too young to be exposed to content-rich language! My son has learned several animal sounds because of this book!!! When he is not in the mood to listen to the text (which is a touch lengthy for a one year old), we sing Old MacDonald's Farm and use each page as the basis for the song. I am an Early Childhood educator and I highly believe in the Baby Einstein products!

My 2-year old received this book as a Christmas gift, and he LOVES it. I like the fact that it not only has cartoon-ish pictures of animals, but realistic ones as well. My child is experiencing a developmental delay, and I worry that he gets confused with what a real animal looks like, versus the animated versions of them that he usually sees. The textures are also very good, and my son enjoys feeling the rough, soft, and furry animals.

I strongly believe in "Touch and Feel" books to let babies explore different textures. This book is great for that - all the animals have very realistic fur, skin, etc. and my daughter will literally reach for this book if she sees it (she's only 5 months old). The text is cute - they use alliteration and it is poetic. I strongly recommend! Baby Einstein - please create more Touch and Feel Books!