What Rhymes with Snake?: A Word and Picture Flap Book

How do you turn a cow into a sow? According to Brown's jolly book, merely lifting two flaps on a page will accomplish this--and 11 similar--feats of prestidigitation. An object (or bird or animal) pictured on a flap shares one small element with a rhyming object found under the flap--the nib of a pen, for example, on a below-the-flap illustration forms a hen's beak on the overlaid picture. In like manner, the one-word identifications are transformed via flaps: the first letter of ``hat'' lifts up to spell ``cat.'' (And a part of the chapeau's brim becomes the tip of kitty's tail.) With its bright hues and thick black outlines, the artwork is suitably simple and childlike, while the white backgrounds add crispness. Budding wordsmiths can effectively double their fun--and linguistic education--in this unaffected entry. Ages 3-up. (May)