Children's books, I need your help please

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I have a preschooler who is pre verbal, it is likely he will always be dependent on technology to communicate for him. He is currently using a simple communicator that I can record on, he then presses on it to activate it and it plays back the recording. He has been using it to say simple things like "Hello" and to tell his news at nursery but we have just moved on to reading books (he is also blind so he hasn't had much interest in books). He has mastered pressing his switch for the "That's Not My..." range of books (I am so very proud of him as he also has involuntary movements yet he very definitely holds back on pressing until the appropriate time), what other small children's stories are there out there that have a repetitive line on each page (extra points if the books are tactile as it really helps if he can feel the pictures)?

It doesn't have a tactile element but "My cat likes to hide in boxes" is great and has repeating text.

Dear Zoo
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt (might be a bit long)

Not quite what you were asking for, but do you have any of this sort of thing? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noisy-Farm-Usborne-Books/dp/140952454X/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?adgrpid=52633144265&hvadid=606389706428&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9045920&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17594794880845165033&hvtargid=kwd-298816480982&hydadcr=20106_2251755&keywords=noisy+books&qid=1699911011&sr=8-5

Thank you, yes we do but because of his lack of sight and his movement he can't target the buttons so it ends up with the adult doing it for him whereas we are trying to encourage him to be able to do the pressing for himself (which he's doing with the That's Not My books and his communicator).

Bear Hunt fits the bill for when he's ready as it has the same "We're going on a bear hunt.." on multiple pages and I think Dear Zoo has the bit about "So they sent me a..." repeated but I think after the initial "Brown Bear, brown bear.." the animal changes on each page? I will have a look at the My Cat book as he likes animals.

My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes is wonderful.

There's The Smartest Giant in Town, where the song gets longer each time and the lines repeat. But bits of narrative in between.

Lots of repetition in Dr Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham springs immediately to mind.

It’s a bit longer but try What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson, there’s quite a bit of repetition in it, there’s a few in that particular series

Not sure if this is quite right but the ‘You must never touch a dinosaur’ style books were a huge hit with my three, an element of repetition and very tactile

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Touch-Dinosaur-Feel/dp/1785989081/ref=asc_df_1785989081/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=311233467079&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4809426896255342172&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007161&hvtargid=pla-547973368989&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

Monkey and me by Emily Gravett is perfect for repetition. Lovely board book.

I second Dear Zoo.

Also Hide and Seek Pig by Julia Donaldson (bit longer than That's Not My... though)

But the most comparable to "That's not my" that we found when DS was still nonverbal at 3 was Where's Mr Fire Engine (there's a whole series of these "Where's Mr..." books) by Ingela P Arrhenius publisher: Nosy Crow. They are just as simple as That's Not My... (and have felt flaps). You might want to stick something behind each flap to make the story tactile for him.

Seconding the “never touch a…”. Series - we had “never touch a dragon.” But there’s loads.
wonderfully rubbery texture on each page and repetition.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09FJQCGKH?binding=hardcover&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_thcv

Bumpus jumpus dinosaur rumpus, not tactile but you can sing the repeated bits, I tend to either clap or tap my leg for the shake shake shudder part.
The barefoot books are also fab, you can find them on YouTube before committing to buying any.

• Peepo, Each Peach Pear Plum are also quite repetitive.
• Never Touch a Dinosaur is a nice tactile one

We have a couple of shortened versions of the gruffalo, and room on the broom with a puppet on the front. In my local Waterstones they have a preschooler section with some great books with sensory pages in or just short repetitive stories, might be worth a look?

Drummer Hoff Fired It Off comes to mind but it’s old so I don’t know if you can find it. It comes with a lovely big boom at the end.

Never feed a yeti Spaghetti is nice - it has tactile holes you can post things through. There are touch and feel versions of stories such as Room on the Broom and Dear Zoo, but check before you buy because some of those kinds of books just have single words on each page.

I thought of Peepo and Each Peach, but there are a lot of references to seeing in both of them ('spying' in EPPP), so maybe not so appropriate for this little boy?

Have you tried the Miffy books on an iPad? They are interactive and I think they have narration as well.

Thank you all for the suggestions, I am going to scour the bookshops and put him together some great books and props to go with them.

Story sacks could work really well if the book isn't interactive itself.

If you've got the time to make them yourself they're brilliant, but can be very expensive to buy.

The bizzy bear books- the tactile element is less like textures but needs them to pull flaps etc which might be a next step up. DD loves them

Dear Zoo??

Peck Peck Peck

The woodpecker pecks more and more holes in the book through the book and each page ends peck peck peck. So he could feel the holes while you read.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly in board book format has holes cut in the middle for the tactile element. Each page starts with 'There was an old lady who swallowed a'.

Also The Very Hungry Caterpillar in board book format. Each page ends with 'but he was still hungry' and the different pages are different sizes as you go through the days of the week.