Customer Reviews

Full of Carp

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Peter Bradley is one droll fellow. We'd love to spend an evening with him carping about the way the world ought to be (a funnier place, for starters).

This book is a compilation of hilarious carp puns with brilliant black & white cartoon illustrations. It's a limited concept, but Bradley pulls it off and Tolbert's droll, understated illustrations are right on the mark. Adults should enjoy the silliness, but elementary school through junior high kids and carp enthusiasts of all ages will just eat this stuff up.

I this book an eight because I first of all, loved it because of the fun phrases that Tolbert used.I didn't give it a nine or ten because I sometimes didn't understand the phrases. Like, "A Street Carp Named Desire". My favorite phrase is maybe "Carps, the Musical", or "Jean-Luc-Picarp". I loved this book and I recommend it to people over the age of 9 because the book uses subjects that a kid under the age of 9 might not know about. Also, if you are so much out of entertainment knowledge that it'd seem like you had lived under a rock for 7 years, I recommend that you find something else. Nina