An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 8, 2015

Review

The illustrations are acrylic on canvas, and you can see the cloth lines behind the well done illustrations.

The short poems are written as a question. "Does a tower of giraffes way up high spy a raft of otters floating by? (Format for all is four lines.) The word choice uses wonderful figurative language. "When a murder of crows leaves barely a trace is a sleuth of bears hot on the case?" " Does a string of ponies that"s knitted and tied stop a drove of sheep to ask for a ride?'' The illustration for the last quote shows ponies tied together with string watching a double decker bus full of sheep, so the pages include puns, homophones, and alliteration. "Should a crash of rhinos stay off the street and a shiver of sharks turn up the heat?"

Overall Book Score: excellent