Fabric
Fabric has been more or less overtaken by 'wipe-clean' plastic as the choice for first books in recent years, but cloth has much to recommend it in terms of texture and appeal. Now Lamaze has taken the humble cloth book and updated it for the 21st century. Its range for 'newborn and up' contains four very different books: Look Baby has a detachable rattle for a handle and four padded 'pages' with different images and words. The book is large enough to gain notice and sturdy enough to withstand use, priced 5.99.
Butterfly in the Sky comes with a padded butterfly, containing a rattle and attached to the front by Velcro and a ribbon. The butterfly can be matched up with the butterfly inside and compared with the other creatures throughout. Fabric and padding is soft enough to enable the book to be squeezed, sucked, stroked and cuddled as well as read, priced 3.99.
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