PATTERNS
illustrated by Anne Matthews
Patterns ($3.99; May 1996; 10 pp.; 0-525-45541-8): This six panel, fold-out board book sports vibrant black-and-white patterns on one side—lines, circles, triangles, zigzags, starbursts—and more complex, colored patterns on the reverse (only four panels here, as the book's covers eat up two of them)—hearts, diamonds, curves. The format allows the book to be freestanding or attached to the side of a crib. A simple, handy way to give a solid blast of sensory stimulation to newborns. A companion volume, Happy Faces (0-525-45542-6), is also available. (Board book. Birth+)