Love and Kisses

Sarah Wilson. Candlewick Press (MA), $6.99 (22pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1049-4

Sarah Wilson's board book, Love and Kisses, charts the travels of love unleashed: ""Blow a kiss and let it go/ You never know/ how love will grow!"" Melissa Sweet's watercolor and cut-paper collage hearts wend their way through the pages, sending the smooch from cat to cow to ""giggling goose"" and, eventually, back to ""you-know-who."" ( Nov.)

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