Baby Touch: Fairy Tales: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook by Ladybird

Baby Touch: Fairy Tales: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook by Ladybird is a bright and interactive board book that introduces babies and toddlers to the magical world of classic fairy tales. Featuring familiar characters such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, the book combines simple first words, high-contrast illustrations, tactile patches, and easy-to-grasp page tabs.

Created for children from birth onwards, this sensory playbook provides a gentle first encounter with well-loved fairy-tale characters. Babies can enjoy the colours and textures, while toddlers can begin naming characters, repeating words, and participating in imaginative activities.

Meet Favourite Fairy-Tale Characters

The central purpose of Baby Touch: Fairy Tales is to introduce young children to famous characters from traditional stories. The book does not present lengthy versions of the fairy tales. Instead, it uses simple pictures and words suitable for babies and toddlers.

Children can meet characters such as:

• Cinderella
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Other familiar fairy-tale friends
• Magical characters and objects
• Friendly animals from classic stories

Parents can name each character and briefly explain the related story. As children grow older, the book can become a starting point for introducing complete versions of the fairy tales.

Exciting Touch-and-Feel Textures

Baby Touch: Fairy Tales: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook includes textured areas for children to touch, stroke, and explore. Each surface creates a new sensory experience and gives babies an active role during reading.

Touch-and-feel activities can help encourage:

• Sensory exploration
• Curiosity and concentration
• Fine motor development
• Hand-eye coordination
• Awareness of different textures
• Early descriptive vocabulary
• Parent-and-child interaction

Parents can guide a baby’s hand toward the tactile sections and use simple descriptive words such as “soft,” “smooth,” “rough,” “shiny,” or “bumpy.”

High-Contrast Colours for Young Eyes

The book uses high-contrast colours and clearly defined illustrations to attract the attention of babies. Bright visual elements help the characters stand out from the backgrounds, allowing young readers to focus on one picture at a time.

Parents can point to the colours, characters, clothes, and objects shown on each page. Toddlers may begin identifying familiar colours and selecting their favourite illustrations.

The artwork by Lemon Ribbon Studio gives the classic characters a cheerful, contemporary, and baby-friendly appearance.

Grabbable Tabs for Little Hands

One of the book’s useful interactive features is its set of sturdy page tabs. These tabs provide clear areas for babies and toddlers to grasp when turning the pages.

Handling the tabs encourages small finger and hand movements, which may support early fine motor development. The tabs also let children choose which character or page they want to explore next.

Adults can create a simple searching activity by asking the child to find a particular character or coloured tab.

Supports Early Vocabulary

Although the book is designed primarily as a sensory experience, it also functions as a first-words book. Adults can name each character and describe the objects, colours, clothing, and actions appearing in the illustrations.

Simple sentences might include:

• “Cinderella is wearing a beautiful dress.”
• “Can you find Little Red Riding Hood?”
• “Touch the shiny patch.”
• “Which character is hiding here?”
• “Can you turn the page?”
• “What colour is the dress?”

Babies may respond by looking or touching, while toddlers may begin pointing and repeating words.

Encourages Imagination

Fairy tales introduce children to magical places, unusual characters, and imaginative adventures. Even though this book uses very simple text, its colourful pictures can inspire adults and children to create their own stories.

Parents can ask questions such as:

• Where is the character going?
• What might happen next?
• Who lives in the castle?
• What would you wear to a royal ball?
• Who is hiding in the forest?

These activities become more suitable as children grow and begin understanding longer questions.

An Introduction to Classic Stories

Baby Touch: Fairy Tales gives children an early connection with traditional stories without requiring them to follow a long narrative. The friendly illustrations and sensory features make classic characters accessible to very young readers.

Later, parents can introduce picture-book versions of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and other tales. Recognising a familiar character may make children more interested in listening to the full story.

Shared Reading and Bonding

Reading with a baby does not need to involve completing every page. Adults can follow the child’s attention, revisit favourite textures, and talk about whichever illustration seems most interesting.

Parents can make the experience more playful by:

• Using different voices for the characters
• Making magical sound effects
• Naming the colours
• Touching and comparing the textures
• Pretending to wave to the characters
• Singing a gentle song
• Creating a short story from the pictures

These activities turn reading time into a warm and enjoyable opportunity for bonding.

Sturdy Board-Book Design

Baby Touch: Fairy Tales: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook is produced as a durable board book suitable for repeated handling. Its thick pages are easier for babies and toddlers to explore than thin paper pages.

The large 260 × 260 mm format provides plenty of room for clear illustrations, textures, and tabs. It can be shared on an adult’s lap or placed on the floor during supervised play.

Part of the Baby Touch Series

This title belongs to Ladybird’s popular Baby Touch series. The collection includes interactive books about animals, colours, letters, numbers, dinosaurs, vehicles, food, bedtime, and other early-learning subjects.

Baby Touch books commonly use tactile patches, mirrors, flaps, tabs, high-contrast colours, and simple text to encourage babies and toddlers to look, listen, touch, and play.

Related titles include Baby Touch: ABC, Baby Touch: 123, Baby Touch: Dinosaurs, Baby Touch: Animals Tab Book, and Baby Touch: Busy Day.

About Ladybird Books

Ladybird is a children’s publishing imprint producing books for babies, toddlers, preschool children, and early readers. Its catalogue includes sensory board books, bedtime stories, picture books, traditional tales, educational titles, and early-reading resources.

Ladybird creates age-appropriate books that encourage children to learn, play, and develop an early love of reading.

Product specifications may differ slightly between editions. Official publication information is available from Penguin Books.

Who Is This Book For?

This fairy-tale playbook is ideal for:

• Babies exploring their first sensory books
• Toddlers meeting classic characters
• Children who enjoy touch-and-feel activities
• Parents introducing traditional stories
• Nurseries and early-learning centres
• Families looking for durable board books
• Baby shower, birthday, and educational gifts

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A Magical First Reading Experience

Baby Touch: Fairy Tales: A Touch-and-Feel Playbook combines classic characters, colourful illustrations, first words, tactile sections, and sturdy tabs in one engaging board book.

Whether babies are touching the textures or toddlers are beginning to recognise Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, this Ladybird playbook makes the world of fairy tales accessible, interactive, and fun.