Flanimals Pop-Up Book by Ricky Gervais

Yes, girlfriend, I said Ricky Gervais! Of The Office and Extras fame. He’s probably done loads more, but I live under a rock. So, have you heard of his new kids book?

No? Well, lemme tell ya.

It’s called Flanimals Pop-Up“>Flanimals Pop-Up and when I opened it, it scared the B-Jesus outta my 2 year old. I shouldn’t have laughed. See, Flanimals is a pop-up book and for those of you (myself included) who don’t know how jarring pop-up books can be, well, having something big and purple with fangs and beady eyes jump out of the middle of the book when you open it could be a tad scary. Maybe I should have waited a few years.

But, me being me, I couldn’t because I love Ricky Gervais’s sense of humor. With this book he doesn’t disappoint.

Flanimals are useless and pointless and have unpronounce-able names like Mernimbler (the freaky purple pop-up). Gervais is totally sarcastic and makes the most ridiculous of arguments regarding Flanimal evolution. For instance, he talks about how one Flanimal believes that a weird creature called Grob (who lives in the sky) created all living Flanimals in a day. Mental!

I highly recommend this book to all parents. Younger kids, maybe not so much…there would be a lot of explaining to do. Of course, you could always set your kid on the path to TV fame (and therapy!) by reading him the book…there is that.

Thanks to Candlewick, the publisher of Flanimals, for sending a review copy.

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