Give a Little Love

Lizzie Mack. Little Simon, $9.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85950-2

There's more tactile fun in store in Give a Little Love by Lizzie Mack, illus. by Julia Gorton. Nine silky, squishy balloons push through die-cut hearts in the pages. Readers can follow young Marissa through this rhyming book as she gives away the balloons to her family members and learns a lesson about love in the process.

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