"When you hear the words yak or badger or bat, do you think of animals? Maybe you can imagine them while they are yakking, badgering, or batting! Duck into this books playful pages to explore action words that sound like animal names and the dictionary definitions that help explain them." -- page [4] of cover.

"From a mischief of mice and a shiver of sharks to a caravan of camels and a rhumba of rattlesnakes, animals from around the globe gather a group and sashay, swim, slither, or sail through this party of animal plurals"--Provided by publisher.

An elaborately illustrated journey into the imaginative realms of popular fantasy creatures profiles such inventive groupings as a riddle of sphinx, a splash of mermaids and a grace of unicorns.

A menagerie of forest animals, whose temperaments match their collective nouns, try to solve the mystery of a missing group of mice.