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...William Steig seems to have found the secret of eternal freshness: compose a children's book nearly every year. For 1985, it is Solomon the Rusty Nail (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). A jaunty rabbit finds that he can turn himself into the useless metal object any time he wants to. But Solomon shows off once too often, and he is captured by Ambrose the hungry cat. Although the rabbit avoids becoming a dinner by remaining a nail, he is trapped in that role when the angry feline hammers him into the side of a house. The nail whiles away...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Hidden in his bag was precious cargo: the manuscript of his second novel, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden, which was published in English last year (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95). It is not an angry indictment of Cuba today but something more powerful: a sad but engrossing tale of the spiritual squalor that has settled over the island. Padilla's memoirs, Self-Portrait of Other -- the other being the man he left behind in Havana -- is scheduled to be published next year...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 784 pages $22.50 hardcover, $9.95 paperback...
...several decades, New Yorker Cartoonist William Steig, 78, has devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains...