Written by Camille Saint-Saëns as a musical joke to share with his friends on carnival day, this is a highly imaginative work put into a different context to the original. For the youngest readers it is a beautiful illustrated book full of animals and handicrafts to make based on the book’s characters. For children who can already read, it offers fun, imaginative texts and games based on each piece. And for older readers, it gives a historiographical outline on the autor and his work. And it offers everyone a really expressive chamber-music version of the Carnival of the Animals with lots of suggestions for exercises to do with the music!