This recording of Peter Newell’s The Slant Book kicks off voiced renderings in the International Children's Digital Library . The ICDL book can be found at: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/. The Slant Book is literally the shape of a parallelogram, with the spine of the book running down one side. When opened, facing pages form a "V" shape. All the pictures on the slanted recto pages show a way-too-precocious infant in a carriage racing downhill who has somehow gotten away from his nanny, ...