Peep Inside The Garden Board book – Big Book, 1 April 2015

From the back cover:🐞 ‘A sunny garden hums, buzzes, creeps and crawls with life...🐛Peep inside this one to see what you can find.’ 🐝The quality board book measures around 16.5 cm x 19.5 cm, with rounded corners and a chunkier spine area that makes it easier to pick up.Set in double spread format, the ‘story’ runs over 14 colourful pages including the inside covers, with various other cut-outs & durable lift-the-flaps dotted around to attract the youngest eye, starting with the sneaky black & white cat disappearing through the cut away gate on the thick card front cover!Turn over to see what else is going on in the busy garden, where the beautiful illustrations offer scope for extra discussion and, perhaps, some further research for the older reader/listener, e.g. forming a compost heap.[11 images attached ©Usborne Publishing Ltd]

This is a beautiful book, with lots of cut outs to give sensory stimulation and robust flaps. What I also love about it is the depth of knowledge it transmits, details about bees and pollen and compost heaps etc. My little ones a currently only 10 months and are loving the colours and the tactile stimulation of the cut outs as well as lifting the flaps but I'm hoping we'll get lots of use out of this book over the next couple of years as they grow and develope in understanding. The illustrations are rich, detailed and beautifully coloured.

Oh - what a great little book this is. Our three-year-old niece loves it so much! It's colourful, surprising (as you pop-up the secret flap to 'peep inside'), and educational. Our little girl goes out into the garden and finds all the things she's seen in the book. "Wow! There are wood lice under here – I love them!" We've noticed that she's not squeamish about any garden creatures because this book has helped her to see the beauty in them. First rate.

A beautifully illustrated book - ideal for 9-24 month olds. Every page has a lift the flap option providing you with just a little more technical detail about the scene. How spiders web can catch flies, what's going on inside the compost heap, what's inside the garden shed, who's inside the little house, who's stealing the birds nuts, who's in the log pile...etc etc. Utterly adorable. The book is enchanting, my son has refrained from ripping the not-so-sturdy flaps off just yet.

Fun flaps on most pages, cut outs and holes on some pages add interest and my little one loves poking his fingers through them and I grab his fingers from the other side of the page.We make up our own stories when going through the book as the text isn't that fun. Has some nature facts that would suit a 3-4 year old rather than a younger child.