TAP! TAP! TAP!

A literal “handbook” from the creator of Press Here (2011).

Demonstrating his usual command of interactive design and using only brightly hued five-finger silhouettes, large dots, and directional lines, Tullet leads little hands in an energetic paper dance of taps, swipes, and swoops, with gleeful invitations to touch every dot in any order here (“Now just on THE BIG ONES!”), swerve between a set of others there “like a fish,” slide a palm softly aaall the way across a spread, even leave the page to touch a nose or a head. Whether fingers go fast or slow, hard or “as light and frisky as a baby goat,” he encourages “keeping them elegant,” “always graceful,” and carries that theatrical spirit all the way to a well-deserved round of applause and a courteous bow at the end. Except on the covers, the hand shape on display is generally a right one, but often enough it gives way to a more abstract, Chagall-style splot that is less specific and so allows lefties and children with otherwise equipped appendages an entree. And, unsurprisingly, an invitation at the end to go back to the beginning is well-nigh irresistible. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Sure to delight busy little fingers.