"With any luck, Alessandro Boffa's deliriously funny riff on Aesop will be the delicious bonbon that gets gobbled up in an hour of bliss and then passed around."--New York Magazine

"Boffa takes us on a comic romp through the anthills, cages, sewers and dens of the animal world producing a hilarious portrait of Viskovitz and his friends as they experience the pleasures and dangers of an animal life that all too often resemble our own." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Funny and entertaining. . . . Never wears out its welcome." --Salon.com

"It's [Boffa's] gift for turning scientific jargon into richly comic material . . . that makes his book such a Wild Kingdom of delight."--The New York Times Book Review

"A cheeky little masterpiece that deserves its own plaque in the pantheon of comic literature." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Charming. . . [Boffa] brilliantly and often hilariously fuses animal biology with human frailty, narcissism, and egotism." --Boston Sunday Globe

"Wickedly funny. . . wildly inventive. . . A terrific debut."--St. Petersburg Times

"Exuberant, extravagant, and hilarious." --The Commercial Appeal

"Wonderfully daffy. . . As witty and entertaining as we've had from Italy since the death of Calvino."--Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

"An unmitigated delight. . . A literary debut of promise, enchantment, and no small hilarity. It is always fiendishly clever and witty and often uproarious."--Buffalo News

"A scientifically accurate, gleefully sexy, and philosophically mischievous improvisation on Ovid's Metamorphosis."--Booklist