What's Next? Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin and Eric Carle

Red Bird, Red Bird,
What do you see?

I see a Yellow Duck,
Looking at me.

For anyone who grew up in the past 50 years or so, Bill Martin's rhyming picture book, done up in several different editions, is likely very familiar as an early step in naming animals and colors, with an introductory reading experience to boot.

But in this day of the "toy and movable book," this classic is back with a brand new wrinkle--a panel on each double-page spread which offers the question in print and slides open to reveal the answer in an easily recognizable picture.

In this newest edition with the timeless and still stunning layered collages of Eric Carle, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?(Priddy Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2016), Brown Bear, Purple Cat, Blue Horse, Black Sheep, and the bespectacled Teacher are all back, this time offering emergent readers the sort of rhythmic, rhyming repetition and prediction skills that makes early reading come easy. In this sturdy interactive board book format this is a board book that all youngsters--from infants just learning to recognize a dog to preschoolers learning colors, and right on to beginning readers--will love to get their hands on.

What to Wear: Happy Halloween, Daniel Tiger! by Angela Santomero

"I'M DANIEL TIGER!

WE'RE DRESSING UP FOR HALLOWEEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!"

Dressing up in half the fun of Halloween. What to be? What will the others look like on Halloween night?

In the latest Daniel Tiger board book, Daniel and his neighborhood friends plan their costumes. In this Lift-the-Flap book, each double-page spread features a question, and raising a flap reveals the answer. What will White Kitty be? Hiding behind the door is Kitty, dressed and equipped as a firefighter! Owl is revealed as a blinking traffic light. More surprises follow as the dressed-up crew gather for their Halloween adventure.

It all ends in a jolly Halloween parade in Angela Santomero's Happy Halloween, Daniel Tiger! (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood) (Simon Spotlight, 2014). Fans of Daniel Tiger will love the revelations behind each flap, as the favorite characters in Daniel's Neighborhood appear in costume. This book makes a nice Halloween treat for the trick-or-treat pumpkin and helps youngsters just getting used to the idea of costuming to have a trial run for the big event ahead of time with a favorite character.