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In this version of the familiar nineteenth-century poem celebrating one bright little star, the illustrations depict people and animals from around the world. Holes allow the "starlight" to show from page to page.

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

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

Dora is playing hide-and-go-seek with Boots. And Dora thinks she can find Boots by looking for things that are red, just like his red boots. Readers can help Dora by lifting the flaps to find her friend -- and other things that are red!

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.

Lift the flaps to join in with the Care Bears as they play a game of hide-and-seek.

The reader views photographs of familiar objects, first through cut-out holes, then in their entirety.

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...