"I hardly know where to begin to tell you how bad this book is, so I'll begin with the good and edge my way to the rest. The novelty of a hardcover book with board pages actually threw me off, at first. I've never come across one before and I like it. The board pages are easy for small fingers to manipulate and the pages wipe clean. The illustrations are bright and colorful and fun, with lots of adorable animals and come fun details. Everything else stinks.

The rhyme is terrible because many of the "rhymes" don't actually RHYME, or are terrible efforts. "Portrait" is paired with "see it", "good" with "food", and "morning" with "snoring". Although "beaver" and "lever" CAN rhyme, most kids learn the pronunciation of lever that would NOT rhyme with "beaver," and I just don't see beginning readers being the sort you ought to mess with for no reason. Learning to read is hard enough.

There is no storyline, here. Ricky throws out a pair of sometimes-rhyming lines under a cute illustration and then another, and another. The lines do not add up to a story, and the illustrations are not tied to one another in any way - they're just THERE, each apart from the rest."
-review from Anna M. Ligtenberg (AnnaLovesBooks) on Amazon ( )