...the haptic system is very efficient in the processing of material properties of objects but is less so in the processing of spatial properties that characterize 2-D illustrations (Klatzky, Loomis, Lederman, Wake, & Fujita, 1993; Lederman & Klatzky, 1987). ...studies showed that blind children identify the object more easily through textured 2-D illustrations than through outlined and thermoformed illustrations (Theurel et al., 2013; Thompson et al., 2006). In a study analyzing a book-reading activity using 2-D and 3-D illustrations, Bara (2014) showed that visually impaired children used a wider variety of exploratory procedures with 3-D illustrations than with 2-D illustrations, which suggested that these children were able to collect more information with the former kind of illustration technique. In this exploratory study, three 6-year-old children with different levels of visual impairment participated in a joint book-reading task. The number of verbal comments during reading, the number of matches between the text and the manual exploration, and the number of story elements recalled by the children were collected.