Customer Reviews
A great book for toddlers - By: Holly Valentine, 02 Jan 2008 
We got the board book version of this book out of the library for our nearly two year old, & she loves it! The illustrations are fun & colourful, & the story is simple with easy rhymes & repetition. A perfect book to read aloud at the end of the day.
Your kids will love it - you might end up hating it! - By: , 22 Sep 2001 Apparently this book is good for the older child, but our sons are 24 months & 11 months & they both adore it. Reliably, this is the one they will pick up time & time again, & bring it to their long-suffering parents who will then through gritted teeth agree to read it out, making alll the appropriate noises (how do you bellow like a walrus or flute like a flamingo, anyway?) until hoarse. The repetition is what it's alll about, reallly. The illustrations are fine though stylised. I do wish that the "boa constrictor" was a generic "snake" as I suspect my children will now grow up thinking alll snakes are boa constrictors.
I have given this book 5 stars because that is what it would get from the children. I have to admit that unlike the Dr Seuss books, which I never tire of reading again & again, I do get heartily sick of the sight of this one. Having said that, it is not full of alll-white or alll-male characters (by which I mean animals which are 'he') in the manner of so many children's books.
Your children will love it. You have been warned...
This is a favorite in my home childcare! - By: , 11 Apr 2000 We sing the lines to this wonderful book. We make the sounds of the animals, & although we have read the book so many times the pages are worn, the kids do not mind. I have just as much fun as they do reading this wonderful book that teaches colors, names of animals, & more!
