The A to Z Beastly Jamboree

Robert Bender. Puffin Books, $5.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-056213-2

Ants anchor the letter ""A"" and bats boil a ""B."" The art, rendered in Bender's signature paint-on-acetate technique, ""combines a gentle fuzziness with luminosity,"" said PW, ""[creating] a suitably unearthly setting for these offbeat beasties."" Ages 3-8. (July)

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