Never Touch a Spider!

Never Touch a Spider! — unless it's in this book, in which case do

Bumpy silicone spiders and creepy-crawlies on every page, and rhymes warning your little one off them entirely. The warning has never once worked, which is precisely why it's funny.

Twelve pages of textures to prod, and a cast of bugs that manages to be charming rather than creepy.

🕷️ Creepy-crawlies, minus the creepy

Spiders get a bad press, and small children mostly haven't heard about it yet. This book meets them at that useful moment — the bugs here are round, bright and friendly, and prodding a silicone spider is simply good fun.

If anything it's the grown-ups who need convincing.

✋ Something to touch on every page

• Silicone touches throughout, a different texture each time
• Twelve pages — two more than most of the range
• Funny rhyming text, short enough to learn by heart
• Sturdy board pages and a compact 186mm square

😄 Rhymes that get a giggle

Short, daft, and built to be read aloud at speed. They set up the next page as they go, so your little one starts anticipating — and anticipating is most of the pleasure in a book you've read forty times.

🛡️ How it holds up

Silicone set into thick board takes a great deal of prodding, and these last well. Worth knowing: this one has twelve pages rather than ten, and a book that gets opened several times a day for a year will eventually show it at the spine. That's a sign of a well-loved book rather than a flimsy one, but we'd rather say so than not.

📏 Book details

• Format: touch-and-feel board book
• Pages: 12
• Size: 186 x 186 x 20mm
• Suitable from: birth+
• Written by: Rosie Greening
• Illustrated by: Stuart Lynch
• ISBN: 9781788432795
• Features: silicone touches on every page, rhyming text

❓ Frequently asked questions

What age is it for?
From birth. Babies go for the textures; the joke of being told not to touch lands from around a year.

Are the spiders frightening?
Not at all — they're friendly, bright and daft. Several parents have told us it helped rather more with their own feelings about spiders than their child's.

Does it make any noise?
No — this one is silent. No batteries, no buttons, just bumpy bugs. A sensible bedtime choice.

Will it survive a toddler?
It's built for exactly that, though a book read this often will show honest wear eventually.

Does it make a good gift?
It does — and it's one of the range families tend to buy a second and third of.

📚 More Never Touch books

This is the creepy-crawly one. Elsewhere in the range:

• Never Touch a Monster! — daft monsters rather than bugs, and just as silly.
• Never Touch a Dinosaur! — the original, and the one most families start with.
• Never Touch the Zoo Crew! — zoo animals, made with London Zoo, a ZSL conservation zoo.

See the whole range in our Never Touch books collection.

❤️ From our family to yours

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