Now You Are 3

Lois Rock. Good Books, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-56148-396-9

A quartet of colorful birthday books illustrated by Gabriella Buckingham ushers in each new year and celebrates babies' and toddlers' development. Now You Are 1 starts the series (""Now you are 1,/ you can learn all the names/ of everything you can see:/ a dog/ and a cat/ and a wiggly worm/ a bird and a bumblebee""), followed by Now You Are 2; Now You Are 3; and Now You Are 4.

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