An ambitious approach was used by fusing two very different styles. Overlaying a cartoon strip upon realistic illustrations of African wildlife was fairly effective. Younger readers would be less likely to be fearful for the cartoon characters in the more realistic 'dangerous encounters' with African fauna. It was filled with brief interesting facts which would arose a child's interest.

I thought that this book was really fun, there are some good fun facts that can be learnt along the way with the story and its got just the right amount of content to keep little ones entertained.

I received this book from Netgalley for an honest review.
Another wildly fun book staring Chipper and Squizzo. These two friends are off on another adventure and this time they are headed for the African Savannah. With lots of interesting facts and illustrations, this is another tale in the series that shouldn't be missed.

Three and a half stars for a cute little book for cute little people. A squirrel and a puppy get in a cardboard plane to visit a flying squirrel relative of the former in Africa, but to get to him they have to pass by lots of game and other wildlife. The journey is shown through very decent one-colour cartooning, and we have even more decent (and accurate) full-colour portraits of the creatures and the landscape, which really bring the place to life. It's just, if a bit more forethought could have been given, you'd have a winner – for one, when the puppy is completely ignorant of everything African then knows immediately what a gazelle is, you lose what little realism was left (you did notice the bit about the cardboard airplane, right?). Still, a jovial primer to the continent's headlining fauna.

This clever little book melds a comical story with facts about animals in Africa. The illustrations are split between realistic and comic strip, with facts about each animal featured in the story at the end. I can see this book appealing to first readers. Kudos to the author for coming up with such a unique concept and pulling it off successfully!

Beautiful animal illustrations. The smaller cartoon strip illustrations did not hold my child's attention.