This is a fun story of adventure and intertwines facts into it. Letting kids learn new things with entertainment is my favorite type of stories. There are opportunities for learning new words (myopic!) which my only feedback would be to provide the definition of some of these bigger words immediately after it. I love increasing a child's vocabulary in 'real time' so I love this author is doing that! Watching my daughter (9) read it was sweet as she laughed often and was curious about some of the new facts and words that came from reading this story.

Thoughts from the Mini-Me-Reviewer: This story is about the animals that live with Doc the Vet - or as the kids call him: The Animal Fixer. There was a skunk that was nearsighted (myopic!) and Doc made her bonnet glasses so she could see better and watch her kits. I liked this book was about animals and their family. I loved that there was a lot of different animals. I mostly liked King Tut the Siamese cat. I would recommend this book to around seven year olds as there were only five chapters - so its a good book to read and be introduced to chapter books.