HOW YOU WERE BORN

HOW YOU WERE BORN
(By) Joanna Cole. Photographs by Margaret Miller. New York:
Morrow (1993) 48p. $15.00 ISBN 0-688-12059-8
A revision of a 1984 stanby, with fresh, engaging color
photographs.


I LIKE MONKEYS BECAUSE....
(By) Peter Hansard. Illustrated by Patricia Casey. Cambridge,
Mass.: Candlewick Press (1993) unp. (Read and wonder) $14.95
ISBN 1-56402-196-3
An appealing volume, one of six Read and Wonder books, introduces
young children to the various species of monkeys found around the
world. The series includes Think of a Beaver (Karen Wallace;
illustrated by Mick Manning); Think of an Eel (Karen Wallace;
illustrated by Mike Bostock); and What is a Wall, after All?
(Judy Allen; illustrated by Alan Baron), all published in 1993.




IF ANYTHING EVER GOES WRONG AT THE ZOO
(By) Mary Jean Hendrick. Illustrated by Jane Dyer. San Diego:
Harcourt (1993) unp. $13.95 ISBN 0-15-238007-8
A fanciful tale, perfect for reading aloud, about a spirited
young animal lover whose wish to have the animals at the zoo come
to her house comes true.


MATTIE'S LITTLE POSSUM PET
By Ida Luttrell. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. (New York: Atheneum,
1993) unp. $14.95 ISBN 0-689-31786-7
Take a sentimental human, a dog and a cat, add a possum, and you
have a rollicking tale of misplaced kindness. Bouncy pictures.