So Many Feet

Sixteen animals and their useful-in-different-ways feet take center stage in this upbeat and informative board book. Mara uses a simple overarching rhyme to carry readers along (“High feet... Slow feet... Fast feet... Snow feet”) and supplies a sentence about how each animal uses its feet (“A polar bear’s feet spread wide to keep it from sinking into the snow”). Debut illustrator Vidal uses limited color palettes, clean shapes, and sharp edges to create scenes that make a big graphic impact and are well worth lingering over. A closing spread brings all of the animals back for an encore while asking readers to consider the things their own feet can do. Up to age 3. Illustrator’s agent: Stefanie Von Borstal, Full Circle Literary. (May)