Daisy's Babies

Daisy the mommy dog is back for a much welcome follow-up to Daisy Knows Best. Also back for the ride are her pudgy and scrumptiously named puppies Morris, Dolores and Little Daisy, as well as their equally plump human sidekick, known only as Baby. Although Baby seems to have grown into a bona fide toddler, this book isn't so much a sequel as it is a lateral story. Kopper devotes the first few pages to reintroducing the cast of characters--Daisy is first shown having what is clearly a hard-won snooze in Baby's stroller--and then puts them through their havoc-wreaking paces, which this time results in everyone covered in lipstick from Mommy's purse. There's a new element of interspecies tussling (""And when Morris, Dolores, and Little Daisy want to sleep... Baby doesn't,"" she writes, as a piqued Baby tips over a cushion full of canines), but the book's biggest chuckles still reside in Kopper's roly-poly renderings of dogs and babies sharing the same id-driven impulses. Ages 2-4. (Mar.)