Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Your Guide to the Animals in ANIMAL HOUSE part 2

More guides to the busier spreads in ANIMAL HOUSE.

Pages 17-18

Pages 28-29

Pages 29-30

I was always a sucker for a guide diagram. I especially like the ones where the shapes are numbered. These ones are simpler--so you don't have to look up each number

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Your Guide to the Animals in ANIMAL HOUSE part 1

In ANIMAL HOUSE, there are many animals who aren't mentioned in the text, but who still follow the animal word-play format. In the back of the book, an online guide is promised. All of the unnamed animals can be found in the endpapers--but where are they in the book? Here's how you find them:

Pages 9-10


Pages 11-12


Page 14


"But," you say, "these are no fun without the book!" Then I say, "Go buy the book! Or tell your library to buy the book."

When I finish the guide, I'll put these on the Activities sidebar with the Rapunzel paper Dolls (and, ouch! I haven't put the Calamity Jack paper dolls over there yet! I'll get those over there too. You can find them in the archive--but it would be better if they were in the Activities sidebar.)

Monday, July 26, 2010

Animal House Family Portraits

Now that the guessing game is over, I thought I'd show you everyone all at once. Here are all the creatures from the game, plus a few more. That said, these are less than half of the creatures that show up in the story.



As you can see, last Friday's answers were a Rack-coon, a BiVo (TiVo) and a RayStation (RayStation 2, to be exact--that was a great system.)

Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a key to the animals in each illustration (as promised in the back of the book.)

The LEGO Animal House is still under construction, but I'm hoping to have images of it up this week (maybe next) The Gorvilla foundation is laid in, the Gabull wing is complete and the Giroof is partially assembled. It is coming together.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Animal House Guessing Game #13--the FINAL!


Here it is! The FINAL Animal House guessing game post! It's got three animals, you may guess one, but can you guess all three? This one's tough! Do your best!

Yesterday's was a "COWch!"

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Animal House Guessing Game #12


Okay, this is the second to last entry in our guessing game. Easy animal, easy house-hold item (even if it is a little hard to spot.) Hint: One syllable. Any guesses from some of the younger readers out there?

Yesterday wasn't too tricky, a few of you got it spot on; the "Kangaroom."

We'll close the guessing game tomorrow, with the hardest puzzle yet!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Animal House Guessing Game #11

This one's another principal character in the book.


Yesterday, the trickiest, hardest one yet, was the "Big Bed Wolf." See, we cheated a bit (that one was mine.)