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Wheeler, Lisa

Te Amo, Bebé, Little One

(3) PS Illustrated by Maribel Suárez. A mother describes her infant's growth, regularly returning to a refrain beginning "I love you once. I love you twice. / I love you more than beans and rice." The snippet of Spanish and the Mexican motifs (mariachi players, a birthday piñata) elevate the book above the usual ode to Baby, and Suárez's watercolors have a cartoonlike rather than sentimental quality.

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