Animal Numbers

Bert Kitchen. Puffin Books, $4.95 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-8037-0910-2

Using beguiling, naturalistic art, this counting book pictures 15 different adult animals with their offspring, and asks the reader to determine ``how many babies / in each mother's brood.'' PW declared this ``an excep tional volume.'' All ages. (Feb.)

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