Hello Dear Reader Are you sitting lying down standing on your head eating a jam sandwich comfortably? Then I'll begin I want to introduce you to a boy called Vince whose birthday it is today Vince is an normal boy with an unusual dislike for animals Well you'd feel the same if your father was always working at a zoo & your mother had run off with a lion tamer Then on his eighth birthday Vince discovers he has the gift He can talk to animals! You think this is amazing? Perhaps you should meet the spoiled & demanding zoo animals that Vince encounters There's a penguin who wants fish fingers a flamingo that wants pink candyfloss & an owl that wants sugared mice Now Vince is expected to meet their demands on his birthday! But everyone seems to have forgotten about that A hilarious delightful debut for 6 readers by actress Sophie Thompson with black & white illustrations by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Ashdown