Families may be cutting back on frivolous holiday spending this year, but books are always a valuable gift. A few suggestions for children: A riff on the universal cuteness of babies, "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes" is irresistible. The combination of Mem Fox ("Tough Boris") and Helen Oxenbury ("We're Going on a Bear Hunt") seems such a natural, it's amazing that this is their first collaboration. It's hard to say which is more exuberant, Oxenbury's trademark roly-poly infants or Fox's rhyming words with the recurring refrain: "And both of these babies, as everyone knows, had ten...
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