cover image Animal Fun: First Noises, Words and Rhymes

Animal Fun: First Noises, Words and Rhymes

. Candlewick Press (MA), $6.99 (14pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1973-2

Six selections from works previously published come together in the big squarish Animal Fun: First Noises, Words and Rhymes. The clearly labeled opening spread features ""Farm Friends"" from Catherine and Laurence Anholt's First Words and Pictures, followed by Louise Voce's ""On Safari"" and ""Under the Sea"" from My First Book of Animals, and selections from Amy McDonald's Let's Pretend, illus. by Maureen Roffey, encourage youngsters to ""fly like a bird"" and ""wriggle like a worm.""