Charlie at the Zoo by Marcus Pfister

This is the story of a duckling named Charlie who decides to spend a morning exploring on his own and ends up going to the zoo. While at the zoo Charlie visits several animals and the reader is provided with various facts about the animals diet, origins, life-span, etc.
This book has features that should make it more interesting than it is if they were better fitted together. The cut-out pages and interesting animal facts would be much more effective if they were better ingrained in the story. I felt like this book is more like two seperate books, one is a 'kiddie' story about a curious duckling, and the other is a book about animal facts. The way the information about the animals is just plopped into the rest of the story would probably make reading it boring for kids. Charlie does not interact with the animals at all and this makes the story disjointed and not very interesting.