Review: A good effort, but missed the mark a bit
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
Two of my kids are preschoolers, so I love A-Z books.  This one has original art, which is nice.  I also like the idea of goofy animals.  However, this one missed the mark for me.  Most of the animals are extremely similar to normal animals (such as Aarkvaard instead of Aardvark or Xebra instead of Zebra), which came across confusing rather than funny.  I might have been okay with that if the descriptions were a little more detailed or funny, instead they seem random.  For example, "I is for Itchbear.  Itchbears are the happiest bears because their arms grow out of their backs" or "K is for Kingsprey.  When a Kingsprey is flying you'll never see any other birds flying around."  I would have preferred a cute little paragraph or something that gave me a better sense of the animal.On the plus side, my five year old sat through the whole book and when I asked her she said she liked it.  I do not plan to read it to my two year old, but it at least held my five year old's interest.