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Familiarity, they say, builds contempt, and the rectangular shape of virtually all books must have led some creative thinkers in the publishing world to come up with the idea for shape books. Cleverly die-cut to suggest the storyline within, many shape books found a willing audience among children. Cock Robin and Jenny Wren or Who Killed Cock Robin? is carefully cut around the cover image of two birds; the full-color chromos and black and white line drawings inside illuminate the rhyming text of the familiar nursery poem. In About Fine condition.