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For example, The Great Escape from City Zoo combines a kid-friendly plot about a flamingo, elephant, anteater, and turtle trying to hide out in the big city with adult-oriented visual references to black-and-white jail-break movies and to the s, when this still-famous zoo-break supposedly occurred. After going "over the wall," the animals don the uniforms of various human professions, including sailor and chef, and try to "blend in" while walking around town and partaking in such typical human activities as watching a movie and going to a museum.

Clearly, an elephant is not going to blend in very well in the city especially when one of his companions is a turtle in a sailor suit and "much of the humor of the book comes from the contrast between the deadpan narrative and the pictures," thought Booklist 's Susan Dove Lempke. Eventually, three of the four are recaptured and returned to the zoo, but the flamingo remains free.

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The final pages, which feature "unconfirmed sightings" of the flamingo, "will likely prompt laughter across the board," a critic commented in Publishers Weekly: instead of the actual flamingo, the pictures feature the ubiquitous plastic flamingo lawn ornament, the sign on top of a Flamingo casino, and something that appears to be the Loch Ness monster.

The Singing Hat has a more serious message than The Great Escape from the City Zoo, but it too makes the most of incongruous situations in its illustrations. A single father named Colin Jenkins falls asleep under a tree and awakes to find that a bird has built a nest and laid an egg in his hair. At his daughter's urging, Mr. Jenkins allows the bird to stay, but this decision has an ever-increasing impact on his life.

He loses his job and some of his friends, and he and his daughter are forced to move, but Mr. Jenkins discovers a great satisfaction in helping the endangered bird survive. Appealing to an older audience as well, The Singing Hat offers language somewhat above the level of the typical picture book, both in vocabulary Mr.