My BIG Playbook: Things That Go

By Author / Illustrator

Ingela P Arrhenius, Kristin Atherton

Genre

Early Skills

Publisher

Nosy Crow

ISBN

9781805134770

Format

Board book

Published

08-05-2025

Synopsis

With bright, stylish artwork from Ingela P Arrhenius, illustrator of the internationally bestselling Felt Flaps and Peekaboo series, this BIG vehicle-themed playbook is perfect for sharing with older babies and toddlers. How many cars can you count? What colour is the fire engine? What noise does the train make? And finally, where are you?

A brilliant large-format board book introducing early-learning first concepts and encouraging interactive play, with 10 soft felt flaps, tactile die-cuts on every page and a surprise mirror ending. Introducing things that go, first words, colours, numbers and more - with felt flaps and a mirror!

Other titles available in the series: My BIG Playbook; My BIG Playbook: Farm My BIG Playbook: Nature

Reviews

Lucy

My BIG Playbook: Things That Go is another brilliant playbook - we've loved the farm version and this one is just as good! This is a great book for young children to develop their fine motor skills. Each page is filled with flaps to lift which are made of soft felt and are large enough for little fingers to grab. It also includes opportunities to practise counting, linking different noises to different vehicles and naming different colours.

My little boy loves looking through the pages, naming the different types of vehicles and popping his fingers through the peep holes on different pages. His favourite page is the one about vehicles found on building sites and he especially loves that they all have big googly eyes.

This is a great book to support early reading development, too. When he was much younger, he really enjoyed flicking through the colourful pages of the farm version of this book and revealing the objects behind the flaps where as now he is a little bit older, he can use it to really develop his vocabulary. He is able to link the vehicles with their noises and begin to use his own words to describe what he knows about each one. A great book for friends or siblings to enjoy together!

Board book / Reviewed by Lucy Hopkins, teacher