My First Jumbo Book of Christmas

Melanie Gerth. Cartwheel Books, $9.95 (10pp) ISBN 978-0-439-52111-6

Flaps, touch-and-feels, pull-tabs, pop-ups and more entice readers in My First Jumbo Book of Christmas: Learning Fun for Little Ones! by James Diaz, Melanie Gerth and Francesca Diaz. The oversize volume functions as a word book, its busy scenes festooned with labels.

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