93. Board book: The Feelings Book: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook. Mike Henson. Miguel Ordonez. 2025. 10 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, board book, touch and feel, interactive]
First sentence: Orange is all buzzy and jittery. Can you scratch Orange's paw? Can you choose which emotion Orange might be feeling?
Premise/plot: Board book, concept book, interactive book--that's what you get when you pick up The Feelings Book. The feelings are color-coded. Blue is sad, hurt, worried, sick, gloomy. Green is calm, still, quiet, rested, careful. Yellow is happy, surprised, playful, brave, funny. Orange is excited, silly, confused, nervous, scared. Red is angry, mad, grumpy, cranky, prickly. So the "clues" little ones have are the COLORS and descriptive words. For example, "buzzy and jittery" describe orange.
My thoughts: I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. On the one hand, I love, love, love the TEXTURES are actually TEXTURES. 90% of the time books that are supposed to have different textures to touch and feel get it wrong. They'll include a few textures, but, then use "shiny" as a texture. I thought the textures were good.
On the other hand, I don't love the colors. I'll try to explain. I honestly don't know if I mean saturation or contrast. But *something* is off with the colors. Green and blue look too similar and red and orange look nearly identical. Yellow looks a bit gray. The colors are not *true* colors.
© 2025 Becky Laney of Young Readers
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