Brilliant! I loved the illustrations and the bright, vibrant colours used. I have since bought this as a gift for a young relative who I know will love searching for the animals in this beautiful and engaging book.

This is a brightly colored, almost flourescent, book featuring animals that you look for and count. It is really unusual as the creatures are integrated into patterns and colours. It would make a wonderful book to go through together with a child. I did find the parrots and toucans page a bit hard to sort out. It would be quite hard for a younger child, though fun and challenging for older ones, perhaps.

The brief descriptions about the animals also make it a learning pastime.

4 stars from me.

This is a fun book for both babies-they will enjoy looking at the bright contrasting colors and preschoolers who will love trying to find and count the hidden animals on each page. Children also have to decide which color shown on the magnifying glass does not belong in the color scheme. Each pair of pages has a few basic facts about the animals shown. Clever!

Gaining great benefit from a quirky, distinctive design aesthetic, this book for the very young gives us reduced-palette spreads, peppered by animals, and a total for each critter that we have to count up to. The bare basic introductory sentence or two to each spread tells us something about the specific animals (that marsupials have pouches, that Arctic creatures are adapted to the cold and how, and so on). Beyond that it's a spot-the-whatever task, with also a key each time that includes a wrong colour for the book's user to identify. It's going to be fine to help with colour naming and recognition, as it will animals, and some counting revision will come naturally to the reader. I liked it, but beware – the unusual design doesn't make this as completely easy as you'd might think, meaning parental assistance is probably going to be needed on the first pass, at least.