Who’s Next? Guess Who!

This guessing game of a book, a follow-up to Who’s Ready to Play?, introduces a long procession of friendly cartoon animals, including an elephant, fish, frog, giraffe, piglet, and snail. Poitier announces the arrival of each animal in short, alliterative phrases (“Buzzy Bee came next, with a tatty toucan”) before posing a question to readers, “Guess who was next?” Readers can make a stab at the answer by looking at the right edge of the spreads, where the soon-to-be-featured animals’ tails and rear ends can be seen. Before long, the pages are crowded with Touliatou’s wide-eye, goofy-looking animals, though some of them slip away, too (“Who left?” asks Poitier), adding a memory-building component to the raucous fun. Ages 2–6. (Sept.)