cover image Elliot's Great Big Lift-The-Flap Book

Elliot's Great Big Lift-The-Flap Book

Andrea Beck. Kids Can Press, $12.95 (12pp) ISBN 978-1-55337-373-5

Elliot the affable moose returns in an oversize board book with more than 60 flaps to help teach the basics: Elliot's Great Big Lift-the-Flap Book by Andrea Beck. As Elliot, Paisley the bear and Socks the monkey set out to find their friends, readers help them locate Amy the lamb by lifting a box cover in the living room; the characters then transform the box into a playhouse. Along the way, flaps help youngsters to learn opposites (readers lift a door reading ""closed"" to discover it's ""open"" on the other side), shapes, colors and numbers.