(3) PS Illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw. Focusing on different body parts ("Flappy ears, / zappy ears, / everyone has happy ears"), the lively rhyming book follows toddlers and their animal counterparts waking up, washing up, eating, dancing, playing, and going to sleep. The musical tone of the text is easy to recite, and young children will enjoy the sunny, whimsical illustrations of tots and baby animals joyfully playing together.

Reviewer: Aimee Chevrette Bear

(2) PS Illustrated by Nick Sharratt. The first spread of this inviting board book shows rosy-cheeked baby Sean mid-yawn. Yawns are contagious: Sean transfers his to “a scruffy, fluffy…cat,” who passes hers along to “a cheeping, chirping…bird,” and so on. In each instance, a large die-cut offers a peek inside the character’s gaping maw. Sharratt’s compositions are effectively spare, and Symes’s jauntily rhymed text is pleasingly repetitive.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012