Reviews for The animal house

The average rating for The animal house based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-24 00:00:00 Kuan-wen Chen Mommy's review from 1/3/12 - 1.5 - This didn't impress me. And I wanted to be impressed. First of all, why did this house just disappear? That was the first question my daughter, who is 6 years old, asked me. And I have to admit that it was my first question also. Second question (also from my daughter with my backing), how did this house just up and be torn away and the people left inside, intact, and sleeping? I guess we lack imagination. So, while the little wifey sits home all day and stares at the air around her where her home used to be, the husband goes to work and finds that his "mates" saw his home "plump into the sea". Hmmm. Husband doesn't seem all that upset about this though and continues drinking his coffee and eating his morning biscuit. So, husband asks the zoo keeper (he works at the zoo) if he can "borrow" some animals. To make a house. Apparently the zoo keeper sees not a thing wrong with this, because I guess he gets this request often, and draws the husband up an animal diagram of sorts. Husband parades home with all these animals and each one does what he says. He tells the snakes to "lie stiff", they "lie stiff" (for the entire time I presume), the pelican gets to be a sink, some birds get to be the roof, and presto - an animal house. After looking through the book again just now I really want to change the rating to one star. I'm not going to because Julia seemed to think it was okay. She didn't say it sucked and if she had felt that she wouldn't have hesitated to tell me. But I can still say it, the story sucks. To make matters worse the artwork isn't even good.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-04 00:00:00 Chuck Johnson In a way, I loved this. Smart, engaging, wise, funny. But it's def. not as beautifully illustrated as the Provenson's Maple Hill Farm books, and there are problems. For example, there's a lion hunter, and a terrifying wolf, and it is so oversize I don't know how a child could enjoy it (at least the newer release is). If you remember it, leave it there in your nostalgia memory file... if you don't, skip it.