As anyone who watched the one true version of The Office knows, Ricky Gervais is a comic genius. A few years ago he turned that genius towards the world of picture books with Flanimals, a field guide to the grossest, ugliest, most repulsively entertaining monsters on the planet. A year later he followed that up with More Flanimals, which explores Flanimal behavior and evolution in more detail. There are two more sequels, Flanimals of the Deep and Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling, and a TV series is scheduled to start in Britain sometime this year. I have only read the first two books and am trying to get my hands on the rest (they were never purchased for my library system!), so I’ll just talk about those two for now.

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