Likeable little picture book about two kids who discover a very lifelike game. It's basically similar to Snakes & Ladders, only set in a jungle, and every square comes to life when their counter lands on it. Hence a lion chase, a rhino stampede, and so on. And it's entertaining enough, but I can't say the same for the illustrations. There's such a vivid potential for imagery in the story that the art comes off as simply bland by comparison. It's all shades of monochrome and painfully realistic in that lots of them are the kids at the game board or the park or so on, and only some of them have elements from the game intruding into real life. I mean, there's nothing wrong with them exactly, other than simple dullness, but they didn't quite stack up to the text.