Ready or Not, Here Comes Peanut Butter!: A Scratch-and-Sniff Book

My son loves peanut butter so I was confused that this particular book with a peanut butter character had no peanut scented scratch and sniff sticker.The other stickers are absolutely nothing like what they are meant to smell of. For example, "French fries" smelled like vanilla and "chocolate icecream" smelled like baby sick. More than a bit disappointing for the £10 paid for the book!

I am a huge fan of Terry Border and have a number of his food photography books. His designs are fun and whimsical. When I discovered that he had a children's book series I was thrilled and even more excited for a scratch and sniff version, so I purchased this book immediately. Although the concept of the story is cute and the scratch and sniff feature is a perfect match with the hide and seek theme, the actual scents are "yucky" as my daughter says. They really do not smell like the food they are suppose to represent. The cupcake smells like perfume, the hamburger smells like a combination of possible dill (okay maybe its suppose to be a pickle?) and some of the other smells we could not guess at all. The closest was possibly the jelly, it almost smelled like a sickly strawberry (once you knew what it was suppose to be). I am very disappointed in the scratch and sniff scents. If I had seen this in the store and pre-sniffed it, I would not have ordered it.

It's a fun book, very cute. Some of the scratch and sniff smells miss the mark, but that's par for the course with scratch and sniff books - it doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment.

Worst scents ever. I'd rather ride public transit on a hot day.

I bought this for a three year old who love his llama llama scratch and sniff book. So he enjoys the simple story… peanut butter is looking for his friends who are hiding. A few of the scratch and sniff spots had a good scent. But others either smelled bad or not at all. So I sprung for a pack of scratch and sniff stickers to replace some of the spots. Now there is a strong mint chocolate chip scent vs the odd ice cream scent, a pickle based burger scent instead of whatever the hamburger was supposed to smell like, chili instead of the odd soup smell, and a substitute of bread for the French fries, as I couldn’t find a matching sticker. So he loves the storyline now. And can easily find where to scratch and sniff for the ones I replaced, but also likes the ones I left, like jelly. Now I have replacement scents for when he has worn the old ones out. Would he have Iiked the book as is? I think so, but he enjoys the more strong or more recognizable scents now.