![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Young learners will sure have fun learning and playing by going around the game board. Young learners have to identify different type of animals, and sometimes have to guess what the animal is by observing its tail only. Finally, the canine in question is Alexandra Day's beloved Carl, who takes charge of a crew of toddlers in Carl Goes to Day Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.95, ages 1-3 ISBN 5-5 Sept.). The game board is based on Eric Carles Do you want to be my friend It contains all the animals from the book. The rewards of industriousness are celebrated in a second Carle title, The Very Busy Spider its embossed web brings a tactile dimension to his familiar collage artwork (Philomel, $9.95, 26p, ages 2-up ISBN 9-1 Aug.). Yet another mouse searches the animal kingdom for companionship-and finds an unexpected respondent-in Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend? (HarperFestival, $6.95, 32p, ages 2-6, ISBN 9-9 Sept.). In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, ``three white mice on a white piece of paper"" enjoy a colorful romp, while in Walsh's Mouse Count a similar gaggle narrowly escapes being served for dinner (Harcourt/Red Wagon, $6 each, 28p, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-15-200265-0 -200266-9 Sept.). Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. ![]()
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