This very visual incarnation of a well-known folk poem from 17th century England is a stunning reminder of why people keep making real-live books. In its unpunctuated form, the poem is a series of nonsensical images. But with a little mental cunning and reading-aloud, the reader can add the punctuation and phrasing that will reveal its meaning. Jonathan Yamakami's die-cut pages and Ramsingh Urveti's shape-shifting illustrations reveal the key to decode this "trick verse" by encouraging the

—Lucia Silva