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Rhyming text offers advice on the best ways for toddlers to bounce. Bounce a ball right off your hands. Bounce it off your toes. Try to bounce a beach ball on the tip of your nose! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin, who had toddlers all over America jiggling with Wiggle, invite them now to hop, leap, pounce, and bounce to their hearts' content (though not on couches!). Because, after all, it's better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced...

"Angelica leads the Rugrats on an expedition across the desert, over a mountain, and into the jungle--without even leaving Tommy's backyard!"

Max's sister tries hard to get him to eat his breakfast egg.

A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed him, watch him on the playground, give him a bath, and put him to bed.

Ruby gives her brother Max two baths, but he winds up dirtier than ever.

A toddler finds out that spaghetti is yummy, but worms -- and blue crayons, and sand, and other things too gross to mention -- are definitely yucky when tasted.

As an African American toddler keeps getting into mischief throughout the day, the reader is invited to discover what the trouble is with each page-turn and to say "uh-oh."

A baby comes into the house and leaves the old dog feeling kind of lonely and left out, but when the girl starts learning to walk, he has a companion who likes to explore the world at his pace.

Baby, a toddler, decides to use the potty for the first time.