Amazing Animals: A Spin & Spot Story

Readers are invited to locate 64 animals in eight habitats in this board book outfitted with several spinning wheels. The sheer variety of animals introduced—jaguars and sloths in the jungle, bobcats and coati in the desert, puffins and orcas in the Arctic, among many others—is the book’s strongest suit. The inset wheels are a not-so-novel novelty, doing nothing but rotating through the names of the eight animals on each spread. And because all of the animals are essentially wide out in the open, this is best thought of as a matching game for very young children working on animal identification, rather than a seek-and-find one. Up to age 3. (Jan.)