Review: `These lovely creatures babies all will grow so big but now are small!'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
Emily Thomson offers another exploration of the animal kingdom for children - this time the same style of rhyming verse and the same quality of illustrations but with a whole new set of animals for children to discover, learn a bit about, and avoid ever being frightened by them. Welcome to Emily's menagerie.This adventure takes us into the wild where `all the baby animals in the wild some are fierce some are mild.' We meet monkeys swinging in the trees, a striped zebra, a cute little rhinoceros, a giraffe calf, a baby hippo, a tiger cub, the class clown - a baby hyena, a baby elephant, an antelope, and lion cubs, and the book closes with an elegant image of the jungle at night with giraffes.Let's hope Emily Thomson has fallen in love with creating children's books. She has the gift - in rhymes and in art. Grady Harp, February 14