The boys and I always love having the chance to review new books,and I’m really glad we had the chance to read and share with you all about the new Anagranimals book – The Anagranimals and The Wishing Tree. If you would like the chance to win a copy for your own family, then have a look at the end of the post I have two signed first edition copies for readers to win.
This is a great new book featuring brand new characters the Anagranimals. They are a gang of six wild animals – George the Giraffe, Pedro the Pig, Heidi the Hippo, Rocky the Rhino, Ebenezer the Elephant and Lancelot the Lion – who live in Pogo Bogo. This book tells the story of how these every day animals transformed into the Anagranimals after their encounter with the wishing tree. After this they get the ability to swap body parts and become a mix and match of different creatures, allowing them to take the best qualities from all the animals they admire. Rocky the Rhino loves flying with his new wings and Pedro thought it was great to bounce on his new Kangeroo feet!
The book is recommended for ages 5-9 due to having a more in depth and dense text than many other picture books, but Mr Z (5) and Mr T (3) both enjoyed this story. At first look at the cover, Mr Z wasn’t quite sure about it but after reading the story he really loved it. I think he was initially bit confused by the look of the animals, so was a bit wary but once we started reading and the explanation was given in the story he was fine with that!
It is very well written and gripping, with lots of details. Once Mr Z understood the concept of the Wishing Tree allowing them to swap he was really enjoying laughing at the different parts on each animal and noticing who had swapped with who.
You can see here one of the pages, it does have a lot of text compared to a lot of other picture books,which allows more room for the story to develop and there are 32 pages. It is still definitely short enough to read for a bed time story.
The end of the book ends with a bit of suspense about what is going to happen in the next part of their journey, to go to find and help the weeping willow tree – so now we are all waiting for the next installment to come out!
There will also hopefully be Anagranimals toys coming out such as a range of interchangeable cuddly toys, which sounds really cool! I am hoping to see a lot more of the Anagranimals series around in future, as it’s a really fun and different concept here and it has been really well done in the book. I will definitely be keeping my eye out for them.
The website www.anagranimals.com is still under construction but hopefully will have loads more info soon.
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August 26, 2013 @ 11:58 pm
A tiger and a duck
August 27, 2013 @ 12:01 am
this book looks great would love to try and win it for my godson, he would love it – thanks for the chance
August 27, 2013 @ 12:03 am
oh animals are elemonk – elephant & monkey
August 27, 2013 @ 12:55 am
tiger, lion to make another big wild cat x
August 27, 2013 @ 6:23 am
Nice creative comp
August 27, 2013 @ 7:20 am
A tiger and a zebra – battle of the stripes!
August 27, 2013 @ 7:50 am
……orang utan and horse
August 27, 2013 @ 7:55 am
ZEBRA & GIRAFFE
August 27, 2013 @ 7:58 am
An Anteater and a Parrot
August 27, 2013 @ 8:02 am
Lion and a Leopard
August 27, 2013 @ 8:21 am
looks like a lovely book, fingers crossed.
I would have a cat/horse
August 27, 2013 @ 9:32 am
An giraffe and a monkey
August 27, 2013 @ 9:46 am
elephant with a giraffe neck
August 27, 2013 @ 10:44 am
A Hippo and a Leopard!
August 27, 2013 @ 12:06 pm
Hedgehog and a bunny
August 27, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
giraffe and lion
August 27, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
a horse and a duckbilled platapuss
August 27, 2013 @ 3:22 pm
ORANGATANG ARMS – HIPPO HEAD AND LEGS OF A FLAMINGO
August 27, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
Elephant and lion!
August 27, 2013 @ 3:49 pm
Hippo and a duck
August 27, 2013 @ 3:50 pm
A flamingo and a pig
August 27, 2013 @ 5:46 pm
Lion and a Leopard
August 27, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
albatross wings and cheetah legs
August 27, 2013 @ 7:54 pm
A giraffes big long neck and an eagles wings so i could fly x
August 27, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
A cat and a chicken.
August 28, 2013 @ 6:04 am
a dragon pig, dragon fly crossed with a mini pig lol
August 28, 2013 @ 7:41 am
monky and elephant
August 28, 2013 @ 8:39 am
tiger, butterfly and dolphin
August 28, 2013 @ 12:50 pm
I’d mix my 2 favourite animals a Chimpanzee and an Orangutan (I’s called it a Chimpgutan)
August 28, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
Panda and a giraffe
August 28, 2013 @ 7:13 pm
Tiger and a bear
August 28, 2013 @ 7:33 pm
A cat and an elephant…to make a Calephant!
August 28, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
Giraffe and ant eater
August 28, 2013 @ 9:37 pm
lion and cheetah!
August 29, 2013 @ 9:40 am
Tiger and a Dog
August 29, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
pig/horse
August 30, 2013 @ 7:04 am
Tiger and Swan
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August 31, 2013 @ 12:10 pm
Dolphin and Eagle – a Dolgle
September 1, 2013 @ 8:16 am
A Cow and a hyena – A Laughing Cow!!
September 1, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
a duck and a cockerel….a duck a doodle do
September 1, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
eagle and dolphin
September 1, 2013 @ 7:31 pm
A porcupine body and a lion head!
September 2, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
A lions mane to keep me warm, a giraffes neck and a tigers body 🙂
September 4, 2013 @ 10:30 am
I would be Elephant for the bottom half , and a Giraffe for the top half , that way i would be unmovable yet abe to see everything that’s going on , would be partiicularly handy at open air gigs ha!
September 5, 2013 @ 10:04 pm
Giraffe and Elephant\!
September 6, 2013 @ 2:12 pm
A hippos body and a elephants head
September 7, 2013 @ 1:22 pm
Horse legs and cheetah body 🙂
September 8, 2013 @ 2:56 pm
Giraffe legs and wolf head
September 8, 2013 @ 9:05 pm
Octopus and an elephant, so I could multitask better and remember everything!
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September 9, 2013 @ 5:27 pm
A cat with a money’s paws so I could open my own cat food! – A catkey
September 9, 2013 @ 10:15 pm
A beautiful foxes face on the body of a white horse.
September 12, 2013 @ 12:18 am
Eagle, cheeta and fish.
September 12, 2013 @ 12:22 am
giraffe and cat
September 15, 2013 @ 9:18 am
a cow and a pig, just about right lol
September 15, 2013 @ 11:34 am
A sloth with a cat
September 16, 2013 @ 8:21 am
A Giraffe and an Eagle
September 16, 2013 @ 11:30 am
elephant and monkey
September 18, 2013 @ 7:52 pm
a dog and cat
September 21, 2013 @ 9:23 pm
Lions body with butterfly wings
September 22, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
Fish with wing, so could see the world not just under water.
September 22, 2013 @ 7:20 pm
An elephant and a Monkey
September 23, 2013 @ 3:05 pm
A panda with a giraffe – could be a paraffe
September 23, 2013 @ 4:19 pm
A rabbit and a dog
September 23, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
elephant body with a shark mouth
September 23, 2013 @ 7:54 pm
Mine would be kangaroo legs, giraffe neck, & an elephants body.xx
September 24, 2013 @ 7:08 am
Giraffe and a hippo would be fun
September 24, 2013 @ 8:28 am
zebra and elephant
September 24, 2013 @ 9:29 am
A tortoise & a giraffe
September 24, 2013 @ 11:11 am
Zeti Zebra with some funky tiger stripes
September 24, 2013 @ 11:30 am
I want to be a mix of lion and eagle
September 24, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
A tiger and a zebra!
September 24, 2013 @ 7:48 pm
A horse with a rabbit’s head
September 24, 2013 @ 9:45 pm
a horse and a cat
September 24, 2013 @ 9:57 pm
A horse and a rabbit
September 24, 2013 @ 10:54 pm
Lion, giraffe & cheetah
September 24, 2013 @ 11:16 pm
a tiger and a giraffe
September 25, 2013 @ 8:25 am
I would love the speed of a cheetah, the elegance of a giraffe and the eyes of an eagle 🙂
September 25, 2013 @ 9:05 am
A deer and a swan, beautiful.
September 25, 2013 @ 12:21 pm
A KANGAROO AND A PANDA!
September 25, 2013 @ 12:54 pm
A snake & a Bear!
September 25, 2013 @ 4:30 pm
A llama and a mongoose
September 25, 2013 @ 6:43 pm
A Bee and an Elephant
September 25, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
Tiger and a horse
September 25, 2013 @ 7:26 pm
A horse & Mouse
September 25, 2013 @ 7:47 pm
A flamingo and a pig
September 25, 2013 @ 7:52 pm
Has to simply be a dog and a cat 🙂
September 25, 2013 @ 8:27 pm
MONKEY TURTLE
September 25, 2013 @ 10:46 pm
Flamingo & zebra