Finger Rhymes

Marc Tolon Brown. Puffin Books, $5.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-055815-9

""Full-page, droll black-and-white pictures and diagrams accompany the prancing words to chants familiar and obscure,"" said PW. ""Everybody will love acting out [these14 rhymes] with fingers and hands."" Ages 3-8. (Apr.)

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