If U R reading this, solving the puzzles N this book should B E-Z 4 U. (And if you can't, Caldecott Medal-winning New Yorker cartoonist William Steig has created a host of pictorial hints just to help you out.)

Willam Steig has been creating award-winning books for children for more than three decades. Included among these are Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, for which he won the Caldecott Medal, The Amazing Bone, which was a Caldecott Honor book, and two Newbery Honor books, Doctor De Soto and Abel's Island. Most recently, he wrote and illustrated the best-selling Pete's a Pizza and illustrated Arthur Yorinks' The Flying Latke. The ninety-two-year-old Mr. Steig created the original C D B! in black and white more than thirty years ago. He now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and collaborator, Jeanne.