Jumbled Jungle

Keith Faulkner. Cartwheel Books, $7.95 (5pp) ISBN 978-0-439-30903-5

Two Mixed-Up Pop-Up Books by Keith Faulkner, illus. by Jonathan Lambert, allow kids to create countless combinations of hybrid creatures with split pages. What do you get when you mix a tiger and a crocodile in Jumbled Jungle? A ""Tidile,"" of course. Funny Farm focuses on pigs, ponies and the like. (Mar)

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