I think this book is more for children who are above the age of eight years old. This book changes the names of the animals, so it may be a little confusing for younger children that just learned the names of animals. This would be a great book to teach in more of a poetry class or literature class. This book enables you to do a lot of little activities in the class because in the book you have to think about the riddles. ( )

A funny picture book that asks what kind of animals Mr.Putney has. It uses something about the animal and combines it with the animal making it something unheard of. Example: What wakes Mr Putney up in the morning? An alarmadillo! ( )

I simply like Jon Agee. I decided this by having discovered that I brought two books from the same author. ( )

This is the kind of book that I first encountered by Jon Agee back when he was writing books of palindromes. I liked it then and I like this now. This is just silly and fun. His many animal friends are all of the non-traditional variety and are slightly altered from their traditional fellow animals in a way that Mr. Putney accepts. They are all renamed in accordance with their special skill and Mr. Putney finds a way to address and accommodate their special skill in his daily life. There is much of a story, but it wasn't intended as such I liked it. ( )

Meet Mr. Putney’s menagerie of animal friends in this pun-tastic book. Each page features a riddle in question form about the name of one of Mr. Putney’s friends. Turn the page to find out the answer. Can you guess which of Mr. Putney’s friends has cold feet? Why, it’s the socktopus, of course! How about the messiest lunch companion? The slobster!

Agee’s simple, yet quirky style adds a delightful atmosphere to this riddle-filled book. This book is a celebration of puns, rather than a book with animal facts, so the anthropomorphic animals, such as the hyena in a trench coat (a spyena) and the knitting walrus (a woolrus), are appropriate and silly. The text is direct. The answers to the riddles come after the page turns, giving the reader plenty of time to study the illustration and make guesses.

Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/04/book-107-mr-putneys-quacking-dog-by-...