Downtime Toddlers 100 Silly Animals

A hundred animals, each one a little ridiculous, fill these pages with the sort of humor toddlers respond to before they can explain why. A duck in rain boots, a lion mid-yawn, a walrus who seems pleased with himself for no clear reason. The lines are thick and forgiving, the shapes large, the backgrounds mostly empty, so there is nothing here that asks more of a two or three year old than the joy of pressing crayon to paper. Crayons and colored pencils work fine; markers do not, and this book does not pretend otherwise. It is built for short attention spans and shorter naps, for car seats and waiting rooms, for the particular pleasure small children take in a picture that is already a little bit funny before they touch it at all.