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Even if your child hasn't reached puberty, talk with him or her about what lies ahead. If you'd like some help, check out the excellent picture book It's So Amazing! by Robie Harris and Michael Emberley (Candlewick; $21.99), which is geared to boys and girls ages seven to nine. It could help prepare your son or daughter--as well as reassure...
...Birthday Wish (Little, Brown; $5.95) is equally textless-save for a greeting on the final page. But within its elemental comic-strip layout a series of hilarious sight gags are set up and sent home. Author-Illustrator Ed Emberley has never been a man to pull his punch lines, and his jokes are often a bit too raucous; but then so is the laughter that ensues from their close inspection...
Drummer Hoff, by Ed Emberley, Prentice-Hall...
...WING ON A FLEA (by Ed Emberley; Little, Brown; $2.95) is a precise ballet of triangles, rectangles and circles performed in an amusing thicket of Steinbergian curlicues. Through a repetition of designs, the author-illustrator opens a child's eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case...
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