I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.
My children and I just finished reading this book. My original plan was to read one or two stories a night, but the stories are so short that we completed the book in one night. The book would appeal, though, to children with short attention spans and very modern sensibilities.
What I appreciated about this book is the introduction of some lesser-known animals, such as a Pikasso the pika, Miss Gnu, and Bobo the bobolink. I also thought that the morals or lessons of the stories were told in a simplistic manner that children could grasp.
The cartoon-like animals and the illustrations throughout the book are also eye-catching, colorful, and often-times humorous. The large chocolate cream cookie in “Cookie Twist” for example, was hilarious.
However, as a read-aloud, some of the puns and humor are lost on younger pre-reading children. Without seeing or being able to read the words in print, they missed the subtle differences between “heard” and “herd”: in the story, “The Heard of Buffalo.”
The title, while clever and unusual, was a little confusing. When I asked my children what they thought the book would be about based on the title, they thought the stories would be about animals who tell lies, or fibs. Their initial thoughts were that the stories would be about various fibs and how the animals got into trouble based on the fibs, and then learned lessons based on the fibs they told. This wasn’t the case, although the stories did all have morals.
My children and I just finished reading this book. My original plan was to read one or two stories a night, but the stories are so short that we completed the book in one night. The book would appeal, though, to children with short attention spans and very modern sensibilities.
What I appreciated about this book is the introduction of some lesser-known animals, such as a Pikasso the pika, Miss Gnu, and Bobo the bobolink. I also thought that the morals or lessons of the stories were told in a simplistic manner that children could grasp.
The cartoon-like animals and the illustrations throughout the book are also eye-catching, colorful, and often-times humorous. The large chocolate cream cookie in “Cookie Twist” for example, was hilarious.
However, as a read-aloud, some of the puns and humor are lost on younger pre-reading children. Without seeing or being able to read the words in print, they missed the subtle differences between “heard” and “herd”: in the story, “The Heard of Buffalo.”
The title, while clever and unusual, was a little confusing. When I asked my children what they thought the book would be about based on the title, they thought the stories would be about animals who tell lies, or fibs. Their initial thoughts were that the stories would be about various fibs and how the animals got into trouble based on the fibs, and then learned lessons based on the fibs they told. This wasn’t the case, although the stories did all have morals.