(3) PS Illustrated by Tom Slaughter. Rhyming statements followed by questions prompt kids to think about everyday things in new ways. Clean, striking collage art with ample white space provides clues to the riddles, while several gatefolds and lift-the-flaps add surprise. A final page of ten more rhyming questions challenge the reader to "put on your thinking cap" and find the answers on his or her own.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) PS Illustrated by Tom Slaughter. "If an owlet grows and becomes an owl, / can a washcloth grow and become..." With the flip of a flap, readers fill in the blank: "a towel?"; in the art, a die-cut panel showing a washcloth across a bathtub's edge opens onto a beach scene. The blissfully simple concept yields consistently snappy rhymes enhanced by clever paper engineering.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) PS Illustrated by Tom Slaughter. Each page or double-page spread pairs an animal with a food it eats. The words (e.g., bird and worm, bears and fish) are printed in black or white in an easy-to-read font. The cut-paper illustrations are simple and elegant, using just four bold colors plus white and black. Young readers will savor the concept while poring over the compositions.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) PS Illustrated by Tom Slaughter. This second concept book by Jocelyn and Slaughter works much better than the first (One Some Many). Minimal rhyming text and cut-paper illustrations of animals in six basic colors introduce opposites: e.g., "big" and "small" are represented by a black elephant and mouse on a vibrant red background.

Reviewer: Nell Beram