In rhyming verse, this tells the story of a boy who likes to explore. When his mother protests his tendency to bring bugs home, he brings a mouse home instead.  As mom continues to protest, he continues to escalate, bringing home a pig a moose, an elephant, and a whale.  In the end mom decides bugs aren’t so bad after all.  The illustrations are cute, the story is one that will make kids giggle (even if it never does explain where he acquires his pig and elephant, etc.); it would likely have earned an R* if the rhythm of the poem read a little more smoothly.