Captions/text in photo book layout

I'm creating my first book and don't know how to add text boxes to my book? Do different layouts NOT have text/caption options?
TIA! Jennifer

Jake
welcome to the Apple use discussion forums
Yes - some themes have more text - some less - most themes have a page that is only text and several of them have two versions of eachpage - one with captions and one without
Liz Castro's web page shows all layouts of each there for iPhoto '08 and is very helpful in planning your book - click here to take a look
LN

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