Never Touch Books

You must never touch a dinosaur, a tiger, a capybara or a rather sleepy lion — except, of course, in these books. That's the joke every toddler gets immediately, and it's why the Never Touch range has become a fixture on so many bookshelves.

Each one has squishy silicone touches set into sturdy board pages, with short rhymes that little ones learn by heart. They're built for prodding, and they hold up to it.

🤫 The quiet ones

Silicone textures on every page, no batteries, no noises. Dinosaur is the original and still the one we'd start with. Tiger, Sleepy Lion, Monster, Spider and Capybara follow the same lovely formula with a different cast — and Capybara is the one nobody else's toddler has yet.

🔊 The noisy ones

Never Touch a Noisy Monkey and Never Touch a Noisy Cow do something different: the touches play sounds, and every animal makes the wrong noise on purpose. Working out who should really be saying what is the whole game. Batteries included and fitted.

🔢 The counting one

Never Touch the Farmyard Friends counts down from five, with five silicone touches cut through to the cover. Quiet, and a gentle first introduction to numbers.

🦄 The squishy one

Never Squish a Unicorn swaps lots of small textures for one large, gloriously squeezable horn running through the whole book. Rated 3+, unlike the rest of the range.

🦁 The Zoo Crew ones

Never Touch the Zoo Crew and Don't Feed the Animals come from Make Believe Ideas' partnership with London Zoo, a ZSL conservation zoo. Every purchase supports ZSL's conservation work, and they're made with FSC-certified packaging.

❤️ From our family to yours

Carefully chosen products for babies, toddlers and parents. Free UK delivery on orders over £25.