It's Really Cool for Kids to Learn about Common and Uncommon Animals! The Alphabet Menagerie is a delightful book for young and old, entertaining and educating with humor and clever rhyme. Kids will love "critters" like Vaquita, Xiphosuran, and Quetzal--"My name is hard, twisting tongues like a pretzel." The verses are fun to read aloud, filled with descriptions about origin, history and habitat.