Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book was on my niece's registry/wishlist, so I got it for her first birthday. I was SO disappointed in it. The spaces to "touch and feel" are so small, and most of them aren't even realistic. For example, the kitten is playing with a ball of yarn, and the yarn is supposed to be the "feel" part, but it's filled with faux fur. Yarn isn't furry. How hard would it have been to just put a piece of something knitted in there? Even felt would make (slightly) more sense than fur. In fact, most of the ACTUAL touch and feel areas were filled with various colors of that same faux fur. I say "actual touch and feel areas" because literally half of the pages have nothing to FEEL on them. Sure, there is a visual texture change, but a metallic sticker/reflective tape doesn't have a different feeling to the touch from the high gloss coating on the rest of the page. Zebras don't have sparkly stripes. Grass isn't glittery either (any reason why a small bit of indoor/outdoor carpeting wouldn;t have worked on that page?). The "feel" spaces on the zebra and elephant pages were so small that I had to squint to even try and FIND them, let alone being able to FEEL anything. The ONLY page in this book that I can give a thumbs-up is the starfish (but even then, it only gets one thumb, not two, because the textured area is SO small). I'd give a thumbs up to one of the fuzzy animal pages if they weren't all more or less exactly the same. To sum up this book in four words: Epic Fail. Total Waste.