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A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

Ever-expanding die-cut holes show exactly what is happening in the old lady's stomach as she swallows an assortment of creatures, beginning with a small fly, and ending with a fatal horse.

Spot searches for new babies among the farm animals, each of which greets him with its own distinctive noise. Movable flaps conceal portions of the illustrations.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another. "Shapes and colors in your zoo, Lots of things that you can do. Heads and ears, beaks and snouts, That's what animals are all about. I know animals and you do too; Make some new ones for your zoo." -- Book Jacket.

Pop-up and movable features teach the colors of boxes and the bugs that are in them.

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Presents the words and music--and varying forms of the name--of a classic camp song that dates at least from the 1940s.