In this book, Hoban offers three chances to see ordinary objects in an unusual setting. First, a cutout in a blacked-out page frames a detail on the next page. What is that wrinkled, hairy gray thing? Turn the page and see the back end of an elephant turn one more page and there it is in its entirety, nosing through some grass. An odd dingy square is really a lamb and a geometrical-object is the neck and frets of a guitar. Wordlessly, Hoban entertains as she provides her apparently random choice and order of the objects. Unlike many of her other books ( 26 Letters and 99 Cents , most recently), this one doesn"t allow for many re-readings. Once children know what they are looking at, the book becomes a catalogue of familiar items, with Hoban"s characteristically enticing photos, offered in the hope that readers will garner an appreciation of all textures and patterns. Ages 3-up.