What Do You Love?

Jonathan London. Red Wagon Books, $6.95 (30pp) ISBN 978-0-15-205054-2

What Do You Love? by Jonathan London, illus. by Karen Lee Schmidt, depicts a young puppy and his mother demonstrating various answers to the titular refrain. ""What do you love?/ Jumping puddles/ and Mommy's cuddles,/ big trees and rustling leaves,/ read-alouds/ and sunset clouds."" Schmidt's soft watercolors show mother and child from sun-up to tuck-in.

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