Everyone's Little

Ed Vere. Orchard, $6.95 (12pp) ISBN 978-0-531-30336-8

Two board books by Ed Vere encourage children to lift the main characters (attached with a ribbon) off the covers. In Everyone's Little, a baby elephant enters the story to demonstrate how it differs in size from kittens, piglets and more. In Everyone's Noisy, a lion meets a crocodile that says, ""Snap,"" a parrot that says, ""Squawk!"" and in the end, another lion that answers back, ""ROAR!"" ( May)

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