It has action, violence, but a zanier group of characters than you'll never meet. My favorite setting is the airport scene near the end, when it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys, and there's an airplane ride that would scare you to death if you weren't laughing so hard. But the funniest part involves a cat and a toad. If you're an Elizabeth Dole fan, however, you may not appreciate the humor. I bought a copy of Big Trouble for both of our sons, aged 20 and 23.
Young children love to play with language and try out different sounds.
They love to make music, so this is a perfect read-aloud book for families written by Iowan, Elizabeth Nygaard, who lives in Ames. Liz says the setting for the book is Lake Okoboji. The smallest snake loved sha-booming with the Snake Alley Snakes, but when he hears the music the other creatures in Snake Alley make, he yearns for a change. His fellow snakes aren't comfortable with the diverse sounds created by the bird, the turtle, the cricket and the fish, so they dismiss him. He returns to Snake alley to assemble the Snake Alley Band.