A review by aman757
That's Not My Tractor... by Fiona Watt

informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

I found this book among a collection of other "Usborne touchy-feely books" my mom has on her bookcase, and I thought this might be a good book to remember and eventually share as I am preparing to begin working again in the child care profession. It seems to be a good example of a book to perform "stemming" exercises with, in which the instructor prompts the learner to point to or verbally identify various terms or concepts. I chose this book among some of the other "touchy-feely" books she has because, out of this collection, the tractor book seemed to be the most obvious example of a tangible, non-living object. I had a pause at a couple different pages to question whether all the prompts were applicable. The third prompt, for example, says a tractor's wheels are too "squashy," which I thought was meant to be "squishy" at first, but which I suppose may have a difference in that "squashy" refers more to something one pushes down rather than something one squeezes. Also, the fifth and last cue says the right tractor's headlights are "shiny," which isn't really a feeling/touch word, it which I suppose can be used to make the correlation of visually shiny objects often being smooth.