I like this book. I like ABC books and find them wonderful to read to children as they learn their alphabet.

This book had mostly dark and dull-colored pictures and had no real revelations except for the pictures themselves. It seems as if the book is well-intentioned, and that is that real families can be unconventional. Thanks to NetGalley for providing this ebook for review.

Concept is good with different animals forming a family together.

Cute and funny picture book however, there is not a story. It's fun to look at though.

If I understand this correctly, the author picks two animals who don’t seem to have all that much in common and combines them to a make a third, completely fictional animal. It’s written out and it doesn’t seem like it’ll work, but then you turn the page and see the family portrait—wonder if they had them made at the mall—and you think, “Yeah, okay.”
An antelope is wearing scuba gear. That might be the first time that phrase has ever been written. The toucan, penguin, and puffin wear silly hats. The most obvious, and therefore the best ones, are panda and platypus.
3.5 pushed up to 4/5

I liked the idea of the book, showing families with different types of animals and some of the pictures are nice. However, I am not quite convinced these are the best pictures to illustrate the concept of the book. I would have liked to have seen a different color palette and some of the expressions on some of the animals’ faces are not very friendly (Check out Duck and Beaver Platypus Baby). I really liked the concept of the book though.

The cover is the best part of this book. The second best part is the Antelope in scuba gear. It is just a bunch of animals “grouped” together for a picture. Some times they have funny props, sometimes not. The author tells you what the animals are, since they are illustrated, but otherwise there is no point to this book.

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This cute picture book reminded me of those corny jokes we shared when we were kids. What do you get when you cross a lizard and a baby? A creepy crawler. This book had very little text just a series of pictures of animals. A mother and father of different species and what their baby might look like if they were crossbread. I loved the one with the racoon, fox and a red panda cub. As a teacher, I would use this book before an art lesson where the students would be encouraged to create their own family portraits. What a great way to share about character and physical traits being passed to the next generation. A good book for a primary/junior classroom.

Five stars! Get this book, quick! Stunning, engaging, and whimsical) illustrations feature animal "family portraits." Each portrait is preceded by a yellow, lined note surrounded by brown photo corners that lists the animals in the picture, Sometimes the animals seem quasi-related (like a polar bear, black bear, and panda cub). At other times, the relations seem quite distant (but humorous), such as in the illustrations of a giraffe, black egret, and ostrich chick--or the antelope underwater with an oxygen tank (hugging a beluga), and a narwhal calf. Lots of fun!

For me, attention to detail is important. The introduction from Becky, the author, says 'embark in' rather than 'embark on' and that stuck out like a sore thumb!
As for the illustrations themselves, I was expecting at least some explanatory text. I couldn't work out which animal combinations were real and which ones weren't, or whether she was just finding animals that looked as if they could have been the result of two different offspring. The book would have benefitted from some text - it felt rather unfinished to me.

This cute and colourful book sheds light on the complexity of families, shattering stereotypes about appearances being similar among those bound closely to one another, using animal images.

We love this humorous collection of "family portraits" of unconventional animal families. The illustrations are complete perfection. We didn't interpret this as literal offspring, but we took the family is what you make of it approach.

I can honestly say that I was a little bit puzzled about where the idea came from for this book, the images were nice in their own way but I wouldn't really feel happy having my child think that a duck and a beaver make platypus babies, bit too strange for me but I thought I would give it a go, just not one for me.