cover image Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Anthea Sieveking. Barron's Educational Series, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8120-6220-5

Though collections of nursery rhymes abound, these four board books--illustrated with sparkling photographs of busy toddlers--are as crisp and fresh as their sturdy white stock. Sieveking's ( The Babies' Book of Babies ) multicultural subjects are captured in a variety of amusing attitudes amid befitting props--Polly pours tea from a plastic kettle, a starry mobile twinkles over a baby's head. The books' grouping according to themes is a nice touch, and the appropriately aqueous depictions of the three men in a tub and rain, rain go away are particularly cheery. Ages 1-4. (May)