The second book in our series is a little French number titled Press Here by Herve Tullet. I was intrigued by the idea of this interactive book and bought it out of curiosity. Fortunately, it didn’t disappoint.
There was once a time, back when Nate was a baby, that Jacob got hooked on free interactive stories and we had to ban “stories on the iPad.” If only we’d known about this book…
In a nutshell: This book starts out with a yellow dot which garnered the immediate nickname The Sun Book. It takes you through a series of pages where you press the dot and rub the dot and tap different dots and every time you turn the page, something has happened because of all your pressing and rubbing and tapping. The boys especially enjoyed the parts where they got to shake the book and blow on the pages. It’s great for the preschool crowd. There was a significant amount of hooping and hollering and laughing as we “played” with this story. The pages seem to withstand the spit shower that inevitably follows trying to “blow away the dark.” Jake took it to bed with him last night and tonight. And this evening he was still trying to figure out the “magic”… asking if the numbers would change if he didn’t follow the directions exactly. The only downside I saw was that it kind of riled them up, rather than riling them down.
As a family you can talk about: How does this book work? How many times can you read it in a row before your mommy will go crazy? If you put yellow dots on your back, can you trick kids into giving you a back massage?
Press Here: A fun little unique bedtime number that’s cheaper than an iPad.
Photo courtesy of Press Here by Herve Tullet.