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Attractive as Saint James's bright, basic paintings of these Caribbean children are, they don't fit all that well with the singsong text's salutations to different objects. For instance, the authors refer to body parts ("Greetings, toes" and "Greetings, nose") that, due to lack of interior line, aren't clearly delineated on the featureless figures.