All the Ways I Love You

. Piggy Toes Press, $8.95 (10pp) ISBN 978-1-58117-190-7

Fresh interactive titles extend youngsters' reading experience. The pop-ups of All the Ways I Love You by Dorothea DePrisco Wang and Teresa Imperato, illus. by Julie Downing, combine soft watercolors and a rhyming text for a soothing bedtime book. On each page, animals offer reassurance to their offspring (""Baby Giraffe asks Mama, `Do you love me a lot?' And his mama answers, `I love your every last spot!' "").

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