Never Touch a Porcupine

The textures in the book are cute and fun for my 11 month old. She played with this book all day when I first gave it to her. The silicone that the textured parts are made out of though are very sticky, and tiny little hairs from carpet, clothing, what have you get stuck in them (primarily the front cover). More than anything though, and I’m not a mom who is overly sensitive, but I found this book to be extremely negative. For example, the first page reads, “You must never touch a porcupine, he’s not a fluffy cat, he’ll spike you with his giant quills and then that will be that.” The rest of the book goes on to warn you that squirrels will pelt you with acorns, and all of the other animals you shouldn’t touch will do something bad to you as well if you try to touch them. I mean, obviously i don’t advocate for my child touching porcupines either, but the whole theme is just rather negative and fearful for a book targeted at babies. Now given, my baby doesn’t understand these words, but I definitely wouldn’t want to read this book to a young child who could take these things literally. There is simply no need to base a baby board book around the concept of “you better not do this, or else you will be hurt!” I mean... come on.

This is not my favorite book in the series but my son loves these books.

My baby plays with the quills of the porcupine and really enjoys it but the only thing I don't like is that all the "feel" parts of the book are the same material just made into different shapes creating an illusion of different textures so that was dissappointing.

My kids love the books but this one is not as good. The last one is “you must never touch a prickly folk” which is odd to me, and it shows a picture of a fox 🤔

Super cute book! My baby loves the colorful characters and words! A great sensory book to read to your baby!

Loved the textures, but reading the book the first time, I found pages sticking together and peeling from the edge to the middle. Not the quality I expected.

My 10-month-old child loves this book! He gets excited every time I pull it out for bedtime, although he keeps on trying to turn it back to the cover page so he can feel the spikes on the porcupine. All of the inner pages with pictures have animals with textured silicon, but the texture is more subtle than the front - probably so the book can still close and is a reasonable thickness.

The pages are fun to explore. The language is a little too much for a board book. Simple, short sentences are better for toddlers but the words are more poetic/abstract/not directed towards toddler comprehension.

When I purchased the board book last year it was new... but I re-purchased this board book last week as a gift and when it arrived it had lots of damage and was obviously used! I did NOT choose to get it from a different seller than advertised. I can't give this as a gift with the giant bite out of the cover and torn binding- not to mention dirty! You can't sell a book that is in that bad of shape for the price of new $12! Making an emergency trip to the closest real book store to buy this book!

This is such a cute book! There is fun textured silicone on each page and my 9 month old loves it!