cover image WHEN MAMA COMES HOME TONIGHT

WHEN MAMA COMES HOME TONIGHT

Eileen Spinelli, , illus. by Jane Dyer. . S&S/Aladdin, $6.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84897-1

Mother returns from her job to spend an evening of play and bath time with a sleepy toddler. "The book works marvelously as a soporific, and will reassure anxiously waiting children as well as the parents who dash home to put them to bed," said PW. Ages 1-5. (Apr.)