Picnic with Piggins

Jane Yolen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $7 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-261535-2

Droll and decorous illustrations enhance this charmingly bucolic excursion, a sort of Wind in the Willows crossed with Masterpiece Theater. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)

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