Tails

by Matthew Van Fleet

Book Overview

Tails are irresistible to toddlers, and in this favorite sturdy touch-and-feel board book, preschool-age pokers and prodders can finally tug to their heart's content.Engaging, cartoonish animals from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152167730
• ISBN13: 9780152167738
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.9" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and under

Customer Reviews

LOVE book BUT BUY IT BRAND NEW! Like New?? With tape holding parts of page together?

I paid extra for the “like new” versions of Tails and the Alphabet book (Matthew Van Fleet)… BOTH had more than one page with tape pieces holding interactive parts on the pages together. The pigs tail literally can’t swing via the pull tab anymore because there is a wad of scotch tape placed underneath to remedy the torn tale!? It had tape holding together a tear on another page, and it was also very dirty, ie( peanut butter smeared all over two of the animals furry tails). FAR from being “Like New” for either book! Had I wanted acceptable condition I would have payed for the much cheaper option! I love the idea of recycled books, but I can’t say I’d purchase from here again.

Great addition

Super fun for kids even up to school age- k5. One of mine is very tactile so we love it

Fun book...

I bought this book for my 17 month old son. He really likes it and so do I. The text is fun to read and the flaps, pulls, and textures on the pages delight him. The pull tabs on the pages are sturdy and large enough that he can do them himself. I like that it is interactive and he can touch and feel and have the tabs or flaps to figure out also. This book is fantastic; durable and well made; a great book for toddlers.

tails is a great tale

My 18 month old can not put this book down. Not only is there a lot to touch and feel, but there are flaps to open and tabs to pull and lots of colors. If your toddler likes animals, they will love this book. It is also made of very sturdy material, so unlike most flap and tab books, my daughter has not been able to rip off all the peices. A great buy.

Tails: A Favorite

Tails is by far my son's favorite book. He has us read it to him at least a dozen times a day. If we're not reading it, he's reading it to himself. Fortunately it's a delightfully illustrated book and holds up well to multiple reads.

Terrific Tail Tale

My 15 month old daughter received this book for Christmas, and it is AWESOME. She already liked the traditional "touch & feel" books, and "Tails" is a big step up. The story is a limited verbage, rhymey discussion of different types of tails. It has elements of the basic touch & feels - different furry tails and bumpy tails, but it goes even further. It has a flip out page with a BIG peacock tail that has shiny/sparkly circles to touch (my daughter's favorite), a pull-up tab with tails on each side, and 2 pull tabs that "wag" tails. There is also a "scratch n sniff" stinky skunk tail, but to be honest, we've never actually tried that one!The illustrations are colorful and fun, with friendly animals to engage your child.This book is quite sturdy. The pages aren't the board book pages, but sort of a double layer of cardstock - very solid. The tabs to pull are thick, not flimsy. We did have trouble with one of the tails that wags, a pig's tail that has a thin tail with a poof at the end, because my daughter tugged it several times and ripped the poof off. Fortunately, there is still enough tail to go "swat, swat, swat".This is a really fun book that reads fast, has lots of page turning, and something new and fun on each page. It really captures my daughter's attention. Sometimes she grabs "Tails" and shoves it at me to read to her, and sometimes she sits down with it and "reads" it to herself. We spend a LOT of time with this book. I'm buying some more of these books to give as gifts, and recommend this books as a BUY for everyone!

Tails -- It'll wag your inner dog.

Who among us has not spent long times mesmerized by a cat's tail? How fascinating they are to watch. I agree with the previous comments: this book, Tails, will wag the dog in all of us.If my grandchildren and those of my friends are representative, Matthew Van Fleet is fast becoming a collectible author. Throughout his growing little family of educational, cleverly-illustrated books--One Yellow Lion, Spotted Yellow Frogs, Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings, and now, Tails--is the theme of surprise. Behind every number, under every stone, beneath every innocent-looking shape lurks the possibility that things aren't always what they seem. After repeated readings--and you WILL often hear "read again!"--your children will love scoring points on you by knowing the secrets in advance and by demonstrating their newfound learning.Being read to is the coziest of feelings, and these are the sort of books that bind reader and child such that they may forever summon from memory the original emotion. I think, years from now, when teenagers, young parents, mid-lifers and retirees like me dust off copies of their first books and thumb lovingly through the pages, that these Van Fleets will often be among those treasures, for they will have left the same heartprints that now whisper the names and bring back the faces and voices of those who read to me so long ago--grandparents, parents, big sisters--and that reignite that wonderful glow of child-warmth that has not gone from us, after all.