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The successor to Alphablock is an equally attractive, inventive board book. Readers explore the numbers from one to twenty, and each decade from there to one hundred. "Nine pieces of paper" become "Nine paper airplanes" with the turn of a chunky, die-cut page (shaped like the numeral). Most examples will be familiar to young children and the theme of transformation adds sophistication.