The book itself isn't particularly linear. The first spread shows a few houses scattered on a beach and a single house on an island, with a die cut forming the yellow oval of the island and yellow triangle of the island house. Turn the page and the die cuts become part of a large house in a city, a scattering of multiple simple white houses with colored windows and roofs.
A slug inches up to a mushroom, whose square stem turns into the spiraled shell on a snail's back, complete with tiny chimney atop it. The three white feathers of Mrs. Hen flip over to become the three red mounds of Mr. Rooster's comb and three of their red eggs on one page, white with a hatched chick on the other. A striped bee turns into a hive, the rings of a trunk into a squirrel's curled tail, and numerous yellow eyes on a black, "spooky" house turn out to be "bats and ghosts, of course!" The last few pages show tadpoles and frogs, spotted dogs, and a little mouse whose home is made of a piece of holey cheese on the last page of the book.
This is part of a series called Read & Play and the die-cuts are fun and will encourage tactile development. The colors are bright and the shapes simple and for babies and very young toddlers the lack of a storyline or even any kind of continuity isn't really important. Some of the pictures are too difficult to guess, but I would recommend this for children who aren't really verbal yet anyways and this leaves lots of room for talking and touching.
Verdict: A fun addition to your board book collection. The die cuts add some extra sensory interest without compromising the book's integrity and should satisfy patrons who want interactive board books.
ISBN: 9781786276162; Published 2020 by Lawrence King; Borrowed from another library in my consortium
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