Bright and Early Board Book: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (1969 original book)

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, by Al Perkins and illustrated by Eric Gurney, Random House Books, New York, 1969.  This is a book with cardboard pages for baby chewing and teething.  This tells an interesting story, using monkeys as the characters with fingers and thumbs and hands.  These hands can drum, wear rings, pick plums and apples, pick and strum; but most of all the drum, drum, drum.

Rhyming Book Review: The Nose Book

The Nose Book by Al Perkins, illustrated by: Joe Mathieu: Bright and Early Board Books, Random House edition, New York, 1970.  This is a brief little rhyming book about different noses, and what noses do.  It talks about the importance of smell, but then concludes that the most important use for noses is that they hold glasses up.