Talented picture-book artist Carin Berger creates an immensely engaging interactive experience with All Mixed Up: A Mix-and-Match Book. In this spiral-bound book, the pages have been cut into three panels, with each two-page spread showing a quirky character on the right-hand side, and three words - the character name, a verb, and an adverb (i.e.: "Beauty Queen Basks Bewitchingly") - on the left-hand side. By flipping the various panels, the reader can create all sorts of odd portmanteau creatures, doing all sorts of silly things.

All Mixed Up: A Mix-and-Match Book is a little book that will provide hours of entertainment to the child willing to spend the time flipping the various panels. I recall having a book like this as a girl, and I greatly enjoyed creating all sorts of crazy creatures with it. As the cover here states, there are over 13,000 possible characters! This particularly example of the type is especially appealing, however, because it also provides silly textual mix-and-match possibilities, and is graced with Berger's gorgeous collage-style artwork. Recommended to any youngster looking for more interactive books, as well as to fellow fans of Carin Berger's artwork. ( )