Wombat, Weasel, and Woodchuck take a weird and wonderful walk.

Wombat asks Weasel and Woodchuck if they want to wander the world with her, but they are overwhelmed with worries. What if they walk into a swarm of waiting wasps? What if the weather worsens? What if they're walloped by warthogs? What then...?

This book was a fun read and had a good plot. I liked that it was humorous. Three wombats had planned to go exploring, but they became really worried. The humor was added because all three of them came up with crazy situations in their heads. For example, one said, “what if we’re walking past the wallflowers and a swarm of wasps is waiting? What if they swirl around us and we’ve nothing to swat them with? What if we’re running away and we’re not watching where we’re going and suddenly we’re wading up to our waists in water? What if a wave whooshes over us and a wallowing walrus swims up and swallow is? What them?” As you can see, they are coming up with highly unlikely situations and worrying about them. Along with this, I really liked the illustrations because they were a literal representation of what the wombats were worried about. For example, one the page with the quote above, there was a picture of the wombats running from bees and ending up in an ocean about to get eaten by a walrus. The book was very entertaining and descriptive by showing exactly what the wombats were worried about. I think the main idea is to show that even though we may worry about crazy things, there is nothing to worry about because everything works out to be okay. ( )

This book is another of Duncan's alphabet alliteration books, and it is just as fun and clever as the others. It follows 3 Wombats on a journey which they overpack for fear of what could happen! This is a great book to share with early childhood students to practice sounds, letters, and vocabulary. ( )

Young Hoosier Award Nominee -- 2003-2004 ( )