My First Toolbox: Press Out & Play

by Jessie Ford

Overview

Jessie Ford’s My First Toolbox is an oversize board book offering a robust introduction to everyday tools, perfect for encouraging lively, interactive play for children and adults!

My First Tool Box features a distressed design to give it a rough-and-tumble feel. Children will be delighted by the removable cardboard elements including:

• A wrench
• A screwdriver
• A hammer and four cardboard nails
• A saw

My First Toolbox also features a tape measure to slide and screws and nuts to turn.
Plus children can count from one to five!

“The tools and other pieces are large enough for post-toddlers to wield easily, and they offer tantalizing previews of what handling real tools will be like . . . there are plenty of opportunities for interactive play.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Ford effectively mimics basic carpentry tasks in this neatly designed book, giving readers the chance to develop their fine motor skills.” —Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419729294
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Series:	Press-out and Play
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jessie Ford combines graphic shapes and textured layers, silhouettes and typography in her art. Jessie has worked with a range of publishing clients, including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Times. She lives and works in sunny Brighton, United Kingdom.

Editorial Reviews

11/27/2017
Tool meet numbers in this large-format board book, which features five colorful cardboard tools that children can pop-up or manipulate. A measuring tape extends, the ends of a wrench fit into two hexagonal nuts, and a flathead screwdriver can rotate the heads of three screws. In the nifty final spreads, removable nails can be hammered into slots on the side of the page, and readers can move a saw through die-cut slats (“Use your saw to make 5 cuts in this wood”). Ford effectively mimics basic carpentry tasks in this neatly designed book, giving readers the chance to develop their fine motor skills. Ages 3–5. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

" . . . the tools and other pieces are large enough for post-toddlers to wield easily, and they offer tantalizing previews of what handling real tools will be like . . . there are plenty of opportunities for interactive play."—Kirkus Reviews

" . . . the tools and other pieces are large enough for post-toddlers to wield easily, and they offer tantalizing previews of what handling real tools will be like . . . there are plenty of opportunities for interactive play."—Kirkus Reviews

"Ford effectively mimics basic carpentry tasks in this neatly designed book, giving readers the chance to develop their fine motor skills."—Publishers Weekly

"Ford effectively mimics basic carpentry tasks in this neatly designed book, giving readers the chance to develop their fine motor skills."—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2017-12-03

Cardboard tools for budding carpenters.

Each of the five heavy-duty press-out tools can be put to immediate use—turning screws on the page opposite the screwdriver, for instance, or making a satisfying "whoopa-whoopa" by sliding the saw through five adjacent die-cut slots. It's not going to be quite so easy, though, to measure "1 board" when the accompanying slotted tape measure has no numbers on it (and is also shorter than the board and very sticky and hard to work, to boot). Readers are encouraged to use the wrench to "tighten 2 nuts," but those nuts are on smooth posts rather than threads, so they simply spin fruitlessly rather than tightening. The four flat "nails" that can be hammered into slots are small enough to make the toddler advisory on the rear cover a necessity, too. Still, the tools and other pieces are large enough for post-toddlers to wield easily, and they offer tantalizing previews of what handling real tools will be like. The book closes with an encouraging "Good job using your tools!"

A mix of fabs and flubs, but there are plenty of opportunities for interactive play nonetheless, at least as long as the parts stay with the book. (Novelty board book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews