“Don’t Look At It Don’t Touch It,” in French, Italian, English, Portuguese and Greek published by Templar Books.
Top Reviews: From WATERSTONES!
13th October 2021 – Bestseller Review –“A fun read for toddlers!” This spooky(ish) read has a surprising end! With stunning illustrations, if you are looking for an October read, this is a great choice! AURORA AT BRENT CROSS
5th October 2021–“A Perfect Read for Spooky Season” A brilliant, engaging book, perfect for the spooky season! It kept my little one engaged and excited all the way to the end, with fantastic illustrations and humor throughout! RACHEL
SCAFFALE BASSO (from the Italian online magazine)
A SPECTACULAR STORY
A “spectacular” thrill, as the title already tells us: Don’t look! Do not touch!
How often do adults offer this “suggestion” to children? Have you ever seen one treasure and obey?
Sara will be left alone in front of a door on which is written “Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Don’t open this door!” and guess what Sara will do? The ending – don’t worry – is a very cheerful ending that celebrates Halloween, friendship and that monstrous thrill to which we have reduced this holiday a bit. The book is hilarious and pleasant and makes you laugh just right, in a crescendo of tension that, however, is naturally diluted at the end. The images are simple and graphically constructed so that the darkness, crossed by the beams of light from the torches, creates the atmosphere of danger that everyone expects. Fun from 5 years old
Divertente dai 5 anni 23 OTTOBRE 2022
TOP REVIEWS FOR ITALY : DIVERTENTE! 5.0 out of 5 stars Fun! Reviewed in Italy on May 7, 2024 A really well-made book, which entertains the little ones with the Halloween theme 🎃We read it often, it also helps to learn new words through the images and the story. Recommended!
Chiara Barbieri-5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful story and captivating graphics. Reviewed in Italy on November 22, 2022
Verified Purchase-The story is captivating and very engaging, it gives the littlest children a few shivers but everything is resolved in the ending!
Elena Amato 5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging story for the little ones-Reviewed in Italy on October 29, 2023 -Verified Purchase
S. Renzo 5.0 out of 5 stars -A nice and enjoyable story, with a pinch of fear. Purchased for my daughter, (a teacher) who needed it for the next day. Since I have Prime, it would have arrived the next day, as it did. Approved! Reviewed in Italy on November 5, 2022 Verified Purchase
TOP REVIEWS FROM FRANCE: Rosello-5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable suspense Review left in France on January 24, 2025
Bandedechatons-5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but for a birthday! Review left in France on August 19, 2024-My 5-year-old son was really, really looking forward to reading it. He wanted the book to be “scary” because he loves books where you have to interact to avoid getting caught by the villain (“Shhh,” for example). The ending really disappointed me, and he was too. This book is recommended more as a birthday gift!
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REVIEWS OF THE ORGINAL :DON’T LOOK AT IT DON’T TOUCH IT! (1999) By Steve Patschke– illustrated by Julie Durrell
“DON’T LOOK AT IT DON’T TOUCH IT” live action figures from the kids at MMS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlcPqmfpYLE
“Our Kindergarten class made a movie of one of our favorite stories….Don’t Look at it! Don’t Touch it! by Steve Patschke”
:DON’T LOOK AT IT DON’T TOUCH IT!” (1999) ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/bGpXsz6sWYA
REVIEWS “DON’T LOOK AT IT, DON’T TOUCH IT :
FROM: GOOD READS It was amazing. Truly my favorite children’s book of all time
From: Read me a story reviews. World press.com:
Don’t Look At It! Don’t Touch It! is perhaps the most fun book I’ve read in a quite some time. It’s full of suspense, and silly giggles, and play-acting, and all sorts of fun. My kids and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The premise is simple. Four friends find a strange black box with strange, cryptic warnings on it – “Don’t Look At It, Don’t Touch It, Don’t Open It!”. Of course, their curiosity insists they must look at it, must touch it, must open it, whereupon they discover a mysterious item and more cryptic warnings. This happens over and over again (there’s that repetition that small kids love) until at the last…. No, I’m not going to tell you the ending. Suffice it to say that it’s a happy one, suitable for children.
So have fun with reading it out loud. Do your best creepy-scary voice, and make it comical. Show your kids that it’s fun sometimes to get just a little scared, because that makes the “boo!” all the more exciting.
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
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One reviewer said that the book was “full of suspense, and silly giggles, and play-acting, and all sorts of fun.” Another reviewer said that “the illustrations are colorful and help her children tell the story.” There are several reviews that have similar positivity to these, but overall, most reviewers have given the book a very high rating, especially admiring its plot and/or its illustrations.
This is an excellent book for 4-5 yr olds.
READ THIS BOOK IF YOUR PANTS ARE ON FIRE: STORIES FROM THE BIG FAT LIARS’ CLUB BY Steve Patschke (under the pen name B.B. Bookman)
Available through AT :AMAZON
If your pants have ever caught fire because you told a story that was so insanely funny that everyone listening to you began to cry with laughter and begged you to stop, but you couldn’t stop because the story was out of control and kept getting bigger and wilder and such a lie that suddenly your pants caught fire … then Middle-of-the-Road Elementary is the place for you.
Imagine a school where chickens play basketball, where kids float under giant bubblegum bubbles and grandmothers parachute out of B52 bombers, where the girls bathroom is the most beautiful place on earth, where bullies get frozen by Bully-Away spray, where rapping killer robots with lazar eyes roam the halls in monster trucks, and where the backpacks are bottomless.
Now imagine you’re the new kid, named Tully Bates, and your two new best friends are in trouble for telling everyone in the school the principal has a fat head. Then the Principal gets so mad, that he decides to close the Big Fat Liars’ Club–– a place where everyone lies and tells tall tales that come true. To stop the club from closing, Tully and his friends have to walk to the Office of Doom, at the end of the longest school hallway in the history of the world. And from that point on, they are caught in an adventure and a fantasy of nonstop crazy jokes all rolled in a series of lies. Make no mistake about it; this is one of the funnies online books for kids you will ever read! But be warned, this book is out of control, and somewhere around chapter thirteen, your pants will definitely catch fire.
Author- Steve Patschke 