cover image COUNTING CROCODILES

COUNTING CROCODILES

Judy Sierra, , illus. by Will Hillenbrand. . Harcourt/Voyager, $7 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-15-216356-3

How Monkey gets from his small island to a faraway island where a banana tree grows may be a familiar dilemma but, as PW wrote in a starred review, "Author and artist, working with traditional materials, arrive at an altogether fresh presentation." Ages 3-7. (Sept.)