Rusty the dog is looking all over the farm for his bone but can't find it. Did one of his farm friends hide it?

This touch-and-feel board book is thin on plot and light on words, but it is certainly fun to have a book that allows children to explore many senses at once. I read this book with my toddler class when we did a unit on dogs, and they loved exploring the different textures offered by it. The shortness of the book meant less time for them to lose attention, although I did supplement some of the text with my own explanations of various things as well as questions about what the children were feeling when they touched the various three-dimensional items (i.e., "How do the doggy's ears feel? Are they soft? What about the blanket?," etc.). All in all, I would definitely recommend me this for very young readers. ( )