Cool pastels and sleek, highly graphic lines give visual heft to this brief, tactile tour of the farm. The sheep on the cover sports fuzzy fleece, the barn is made of vertically oriented brown corrugated "wood," the pig features a patch of touchitagain moleskin, the tractor is equipped with a marvelously rubberyfeeling tire, the hens walk across a corkboardlike yard and the cow's brown spot is a soft terrycloth. If the touchandfeel elements are superior to many of their ilk, however, the text is not, achieving rhyme but not much meaning: "Feel the GROUND. / Hens run around. // Touch the COW. / Do it now." This flaw, combined with the lowcontrast palette, makes this one a miss. A companion, Count (9781934706756), shares this book's visual sensibility, but not its tactile aspect. (Ages 618 mos.)