cover image Sam's Busy Day

Sam's Busy Day

Yves Got. Chronicle Books, $12.95 (8pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-4074-3

In Sam's Opposites by Yves Got the playful bunny with a thick black outline contrasts happy/sad, big/small, wet/dry and more, in an appealing padded paper-over-board format. Sam's Busy Day, also by Got, is a compact boxed set of four hand-size board books with rounded corners, about everyday things in Sam's world: Sam's Room; Sam's Clothes; Sam Goes to the Store; and Sam Goes to the Park. Bright, bold pictures and one or two words per page encourage toddlers to identify familiar objects and build vocabulary.