This play includes a funny old man plus a pizza-eating boy who knows a lot about llamas, chimpanzees, giraffes, kangaroos and dinosaurs.

* Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer scenes that develop reading stamina.

* Text type - A rhyming play.

* Curriculum links - Science: Teeth and eating; Habitats; Music: Painting with sound - Exploring sound colours, Play it again - Exploring rhythmic patterns; PE: Dance activities.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.