Junior in the City: A Spinwheels Book

Samantha Berger. ABRAMS, $10.95 (7pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-3497-9

An opthalmologically challenged pig stars in Junior on the Farm and Junior in the City, two paper-over-board books by Samantha Berger and Lisa Eve Huberman, illus. by Daniel Moreton. ""The sun came up warm and bright/ And filled the farm with morning light./ Junior yawned and looked up high./ But the sun looked like a ____ in the sky."" A spin wheel fills in the blank and shows a corresponding picture of the object. Among the spectacles-free possibilities: a fried egg, a pumpkin and a daisy.

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