Wee Sing If You're Happy and You Know It (Board)

Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp. Price Stern Sloan, $4.99 (26pp) ISBN 978-0-8431-7759-6

Two new board books by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, illus. by Hala Wittwer, coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Wee Sing series. If You're Happy and You Know It shows a ladybug clapping and a centipede stomping; Old McDonald features each farmyard animal oinking or mooing, solo, while the previously featured animals cheer. (Mar.)

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