'The Scribble Squad in the Weird Wild West' by Donald "Scribe" Ross is a young reader book with lots of pictures. It takes place in the old west, and that is where some of the problems come in to play.

Rumpus, Tai, Phil, and Phlox are a group of animal friends invited to create a mural. They choose a theme, but they end up disagreeing on what should be painted, so the painting ends up with all kinds of crazy things.

And then they end up on the other side of the mural in a land full of spray paint can rattlesnakes and large rideable hamsters. They find lots of secrets and a town that is being run by an evil group. Can they help?

There are all kinds of animals, but the indigenous people are all birds. They also have access to all the gold, but don't seem to want to do anything with it except protect it. There are all sorts of weird stereotypes with this group of people. Noble, mystical, mysterious, but definitely not like the other characters. Also, some of the themes of the book seems to be that graffiti and vandalism are ok.

I'm all for promoting the arts, and I'm not even really opposed to lawful graffiti. I really had more problems with the weird take on history that this book seems to take.

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