LAUGHING GAS—P. G. Wodehouse— Doubletlay, Doran ($2). Reginald John Peter Swithin, third Earl of Havershot, had a face like a gorilla,— “much more so, indeed,” he confessed, “than most gorillas have.” ...

Former U.K. Children’s Laureate Browne has always been interested in primates, as books like Gorilla and his Willy the Chimp series have made clear. Now, the static nature of a counting book allows ...