All God's Critters - Bill Staines

Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Published: Jan. 2009, Rating: 4.5
Read: B&N 1/31/09
Endpapers: Black

Full page illustrations of large, fun, extremely whimsical animals - there are even two pull-open pages that show all the animals, arms over shoulders, kicking their feet like the Rockettes and, with heads thrown back, singing for all they're worth.
The music and lyrics are on a 2-page spread in the back.

This is a joyful book. It's too bad that a CD is not included, but it IS on Bill Staines"The Happy Wanderer" cd for kids that was released in 1993. I've seen Bill Staines perform three times, I think. He's great. And he yodels, too!