Sweet, Sweet Baby!

Javaka Steptoe. Cartwheel Books, $12.95 (4pp) ISBN 978-0-439-65086-1

The cloth book Sweet, Sweet Baby!, illus. by Javaka Steptoe, shows a line of reassuring text on each cloth page and ends with a mylar mirror in which babies can see themselves, bordered with ""petals"" that squeak, crinkle and rattle. .

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