Book-O-Beards: A Wearable Book

For children who can’t wait until adulthood to grow mustaches and beards worthy of lumberjacks and pirates, this board book might be the next best thing. Opening each spread wide reveals the lower half of six cartoon faces with colorful facial hair, from a cowboy’s “yellow as straw” mustache” to Santa’s snowy beard. Readers can try each of them on for size by holding the book up to their own faces. The meter of Lemke’s rhymes isn’t always precise (“This gray beard/ is salty all day./ Salute and say,/ ‘Anchors aweigh!’ ”), but most readers will be too caught up in the silly fun to care. Simultaneously available: Book-O-Hats, Book-O-Masks, and Book-O-Teeth. Ages 1–6. (Feb.)