Books About Animals for Toddlers and Babies

Great animal touch and feel sensory books for your toddler or baby.

These books about animals are fun touch and feel sensory books your toddler or baby is going to love. The bright colors, illustrations, photography, and stories add to the fun in each story.

My toddler adores animals and touch and feel books are some of his favorites. The fun part is that my baby is also starting to enjoy books too and touch and feel books with bright colors are perfect for him as well!

These books are great introductions to reading for little kids because they are easy to listen to. Most of the books on this list use rhymes to teach kids about animals. This style of writing is great for keeping young readers engaged.

Kids love to see the animals and get to “feel” them too. The soft fur and different textures make the child imagine they are actually touching the animal.

Here are 10 books about animals for toddlers and babies.

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1. On The Farm – Children’s Padded Board Book

Spend a day on the farm meeting all the animals and find out how they spend their days. From sunrise with the rooster to sunset with the farmer, this book will introduce your little one to all kinds of farm animals they are sure to love. This book provides a great opportunity to practice the animal sounds as you read too.

2. Touch and Feel Farm Animals

This is a fun touch and feel farm animal book. There are facts about each animal to read with your child. The animals are actual photos so the child can easily recognize and identify the animals when they see them in real life too. The different textures will keep young babies and toddlers interested as they learn about the animals.

3. Funny Farm Animals – Silicone Touch and Feel Board Book

This sensory touch and feel animal book is unique in that each touch design is made from silicone. This provides kids with a different experience when they read compared to other touch and feel books. The silicone is in a different design for each animal. My son likes to trace the designs with his fingers as we read together. This books uses fun rhymes to tell a story about each animal.

4. Farm Days with Cow – Touch and Feel Board Book

Spend the day with one of our farm favorites, the cow! This touch and feel book lets the child feel different textures around the farm as they listen to the short rhyming sentences on each page. The textures aren’t just animals, they are items you’d find around a farm too. The shape of the book helps little hands turn the pages and hold it easily.

5. Moo Moo Peekaboo – Chunky Lift the Flap Board Book

This lift the flap book is a fun peekaboo game for toddlers and babies. They look around the farm for the baby animals on each page. Where are they hiding? Of course, under the flap! The chunky flaps are easier for little hands to manipulate so they can open them on their own. Each page uses fun rhyming sentences that kids enjoy listening to.

6. Fidgimals Little Cow Animal Farm Baby Book

The fidget pop it cow on this book keeps toddlers and babies entertained the whole time they listen to the story and afterwards too! There are also other touch and feel pages in the book as well.

The little cow is new to the farm and is nervous. The other animals welcome him and teach him how to make new friends. Find out if the little cow feels less alone by the end of the story.

7. Old MacDonald Had a Farm – Touch and Feel Storybook

This book takes the classic sing along “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” and adds adorable illustrations and touch and feel animals. Toddlers and babies will love to look at this book with you as you sing their favorite song. The pictures and textures keep the toddlers begging to read it again and again. Old MacDonald is my son’s favorite song!

8. Adorable Animals – Touch and Feel Board Book

This touch and feel animal book features a wide variety of animals for the toddler or baby to interact with. The real photography of the animals is something kids love because they recognize their favorite animals instantly. From animal sounds to fun facts, this book is quite engaging for little readers.

9. Little Hippo Books Baby Animals – A Noisy Touch and Feel Sensory Book Featuring Farm Sounds

Animals, sounds, textures and fun facts, this book has it all! Babies and toddlers love to hear the animal sounds as they feel the textures on each page. As the kids enjoy the tactile and auditory features of this book, they also learn about the animals too. This book utilizes real photography of the animals so the readers will recognize their favorite animals in and out of the book.

10. Who Am I? In the Garden

This book is different than the others on this list because this one is about all the animals kids find outside in the garden. They will enjoy all the creatures and silicone textures on each page as they listen to the rhymes and learn about the animals. The bright colors and fun illustrations complete this book as one kids will love.

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Enjoy! I’d love to hear which one is your child’s favorite in the comments!