This book presents a witty look at what it would be like if animals attempted to wear human clothes. The illustrations and ideas are understandable to young children but humorous enough to entertain older ones. Each page pictures a different animal in an article of clothing that manifestly does not work (one of the funniest is the hen wearing pants, with an egg caught inside). The sense of absurdity in this book will delight and cultivate a wonderful kind of humor.

This is a funny story. It is a great book for kids to read because it is entertaining and it also introduces rhyming and other early literacy skills to children. This book is good to read when you are spending one on one time with a student, quality time with your own child(ren), and reading to your class.

So frigging cute, I loved all the animals! Can't believe I'd never heard of this timeless classic.

This was one of my personal favorites growing up. This book would be great for beginning readers because the text is simple and it’s informative as well; it demonstrates unique characteristics of animals. The book guides the reader through hilarious explanations why animals shouldn’t wear clothes. My favorite is, “it might be very embarrassing for an elephant. The picture shows an elephant wearing a floral dress and hat while staring at a woman wearing an identical outfit. It’s a cute and fun read!

Short, simple, hysterically funny.

Gives lots of compelling reasons why various creatures should not wear clothes ("because it would hamper a horse, because a frog might jump out of it, because it would be unbearable for a bear, etc.).

This was one of my favorite books as a kid. The pictures cracked me up.

As a parent, I still enjoy it. But I don't know how much re-readability it has. If you're not in a position to run around buying a ton of books for your kids, you might want to grab it from the library rather than make it part of your permanent collection.

My 5 year old laughed out loud while reading this book.

Years ago I cut up a tattered copy of this picture book and mounted it to 12x12 squares of cardstock. Animals wearing clothes is a silly concept and as such worked well with the story time "silly circus" theme. One of the animals pictured is a giraffe wearing seven neckties, which served as a "tie-in" to this week's craft in which we made funny clown ties using cardstock, stickers, and ribbon.

The craft was inspired by a photograph in an old issue of Sesame Street Magazine. A boy is pictured wearing an over-sized tie cut from lime green cardstock and decorated with large sequin dots. A cord is taped to the back of the tie so the tie can be worn.

We pre-cut the ties from cardstock and set the tables with tape dispensers, rolls of 1/8th inch ribbon, child-safe scissors, markers, crayons, and stickers. Stickers included left-overs from previous years summer reading, dots, and stars.

Coincidentally, I found a necktie rubber stamp to use in the story time greeting routine. Each week each child gets his or her hand stamped with a picture relating to the story time theme. They look forward to this and late-comers are sure to ask for the stamp during craft time.

Oh my god, this was one of my favorite childhood books. The illustrations were exquisite. I mean, just look at the cover. What a fucking weird little tome.

Very cute,very funny and very witty. This a masterpiece. I could not help laughing. Highly recommended.

Simple and hilarious!!!