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| | Salon | Mothers Who Think: Les birds et les bees |
 | | From snails to whales, a vast cross-section of the animal kingdom is depicted in small, graphically correct illustrations at (fore)play, mating, brooding and being born. |
 | | One of the many Gallimard books that did make its way across the Atlantic, albeit with significant changes, is called "The Body." A sort of bio-anatomy lesson for toddlers, the book uses simple but lifelike illustrations of a boy, a girl and a baby, with plastic overlays describing everything from molecules to intestinal tracts. |
 | | Before the book could be distributed in the U.S., Scholastic, American publisher of Gallimard books, required design changes that put clothes on the two toddlers and diapers on the baby (despite the fact that the baby's genitals are not apparent at all in the original French version). |
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