Picture Book: Ages 4--8

What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (Houghton Mifflin, 32 pp., $15.00). Strikingly exceptional cut-paper animal science book with intriguing facts. A 2004 Caldecott Honor Book replete with visual surprises.

Crepes by Suzette by Monica Wellington. (Dutton, 32 pp., $15.99). Francophiles will delight in this charming rendition of Parisian historic buildings, quaint gardens and parks, and city strollers eating Suzette's crepes as she sells them from her colorful pushcart. Mixed-media collages of photographs, stamps and postcards. Poetry: Ages 6--10

Riddle-iculous Math by Joan Holub. Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. (Albert Whitman, 32 pp., $14.95). Hilariously campy and often challenging riddles and rhymes based on math, from simple addition to increasingly harder subtraction functions. Quick brainteasers just for fun displayed in simple colorful cartoon format. Math Fables: Lessons That Count by Greg Tang. Illustrated by Heather Cahoon. (Scholastic, unpaged, $16.95). Brief fables told in rhyme with catchy titles such as “Trying Times,” “Midnight Snack,” and “Gone With the Wind” and ending in common sense moral. Perky computer-generated cartoons compliment the enriching experience of seeing numbers in different combinations or groupings.#

Selene S. Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary in Hollywood, Florida. She is formerly a children's librarian for the New York Public Library.