Countdown to Bedtime

Mike Haines. Hyperion Books, $12.99 (16pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-0741-3

Youngsters can count backwards, lift flaps and watch Bandit and Spike get ready for bed in just 10 minutes in Countdown to Bedtime by Mike Haines, illus. by David Melling. For ""Have they brushed their teeth?"" with only two minutes left, a flap reveals that the toothpaste is stuck on Spike the porcupine's quills, under his bathrobe. (May)

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