The Books

The Purple Kangaroo

by Michael Ian Black
Illustrated by Peter Brown

One Potato Review

Cute. Yeah, maybe a little too cute for some tastes, but those tastes almost certainly do not extend to an audience of fidgeting First Graders at Friday morning read aloud. You may (as the designated reader) occasionally get your tongue tangled around some of these syntactical detours (many aforementioned’s and parentheses), still this fast-talking con-monkey is sufficiently imbalanced you might not figure out exactly where he is heading until you’re done. That monkey keeps wanting to stick it to you, and you may let him, more times than is possibly edifying.