The text is chatty enough, but buyers will be interested primarily in the pictures by Rudolf Freund -- poster-like illustrations in full color which enclose the text on every page. We do feel, however, that the shiny, glassy-eyed perfection of each animal drawing lends a depressing immobility to the little ones of woods and fields. The animals pictured are the scurrying type mostly -- mice, rabbits, woodchucks, shunks, etc. Laminated board.