>NURSE LUGTON'S CURTAIN IN Virginia Woolf's 1924 STORY, REMINISCENT OF RAY Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, a nurse is sewing together a curtain decorated with animals. As she falls asleep, they come alive. The cool blue tones of Julie Vivas's new drawings are apt for Woolf's scary allusions to life's precariousness. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $14.95; ages 7-up)
MARTHA'S NEW PUPPY A later woman author, Danielle Steel, wrote this predictably wordy yet charming tale of a child's birthday gift. Jacqueline Rogers's drawings are a bit literal; Martha is cute and blond enough to grow up and be a Steel heroine. (Dell, $9.95; ages 4 to 7)
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