I’m sorry to say it, but I was disappointed. I couldn’t really tell what the purpose of this book was. It can’t count as a joke book, because the story really only contains two jokes, and they’re not especially good jokes. The main character even says his friends don’t like his jokes, and the zebra he’s telling them to straight-out tells him that jokes that have to be explained aren’t funny. It tells us the zebra showed up because he got left by a traveling circus, and it says they should find the circus so the ringmaster can teach them more jokes, but then they don’t actually go look. The book just ends with them rolling around in a field laughing with each other. And there were some pretty challenging words for an “easy reader.”