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This line of books provides an excellent beginning for newborns-to-preschoolers. The slide-out or flip-flop board books are sturdy,child safety tested. Illustrations by ROBERT SALANITRO and ABDI MOSHIRL introduce children to numbers, colors, shapes, seasons, fruit, transportaiton, etc. Best of all--kids LIKE these books.

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