Mary Had a Little Lamb

Sarah Josepha Hale. Putnam Publishing Group, $7.99 (28pp) ISBN 978-0-399-24221-2

A trio of favorite picture books are now available in board book editions. In Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale released as a children's book in 1984, Tomie dePaola places the favorite nursery rhyme in a New England setting. His popular folk-art illustrations, several of them appearing here as wordless spreads, allow young readers to follow Mary and her lamb through their daily activities-especially at school.

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