Critter Love

Kate Spohn. HarperFestival, $10.99 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-06-052977-2

In another fuzzy board book, Kate Spohn does a riff on ""All Creatures Great and Small"" in Critter Love. As the text describes the virtue of loving all living things (""Love the big/ and the small./ Hug the furry, the sleek,/ the short, and the tall""), the thick cardstock pages feature scruffy strips of fabric on the animals, characters and landscapes.

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