concise versions of children's favorites: I Like You

You've finished all the Proust in the house and junior is still screaming for more meandering non-narrative circularity: it might be time to dust off this volume of fake Jules Feiffer. If babies had book clubs, this unremitting deconstruction of childhood friendship would reliably end them.

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