A sim­ple pre-school board book encour­ag­ing young chil­dren to share their toys and pos­ses­sions with oth­ers is suc­cess­ful in achiev­ing that goal. The board book is an adap­ta­tion of the pop­u­lar 1990 book,

Labels for Laibel. Two broth­ers begin by not shar­ing corn chips and pro­ceed to label all their pos­ses­sions, so that each toy will be unique­ly theirs. They refuse to share any­thing with each oth­er. Their clever moth­er and father man­age to out­do them by rec­i­p­ro­cat­ing their behav­ior, cre­at­ing an age-appro­pri­ate les­son for the boys. This abridge­ment of the ear­li­er book, whose char­ac­ters are also Ortho­dox, flows well, although it is a bit preachy. For ages 2 – 5.