Douglas Florian displays humor both visually and verbally in another collection of poems and paintings that follow the format established in his four earlier volumes: beast feast (1994), on the wing (1996), in the swim (1997), and Insectlopedia (1998), all published by Harcourt. Florian pairs short, pithy poems with delightful full-page color paintings of his subjects, which range here from aardvark to zebra, otter to lemur, tapir to tiger. There are 21 poems in all, full of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and plenty of laughs. (Ages 5-9)

In Douglas Florian's latest menagerie of twenty-one original poems and paintings, readers will be laughing out loud at the sheer silliness of his animal observations. With mammals ranging from the howling coyote and the wood-chopping beaver to the daring ibex and the speedy tiger, here is a zooful of furry fun like no other! The fifth book in a celebrated animal poetry collection series from a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award winner - Twenty-one poems and paintings that blend humor with scientific information -Companion to the immensely popular insectlopedia, a Publishers Weekly children's bestseller that delighted Daniel Pinkwater's audience on National Public Radio