I-SPY PETS: When Human Friendship Is Not Enough: A Hilarious I-SPY Parody for Grown-ups and Pet Owners

by Sam Jordison

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.

The I-SPY concept is very it’s like the ‘I spy with my little eye’ game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about ‘something beginning with’, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to discover interesting things. This can be alarming – but when turned into a sport, it’s also fun.

Britain is overrun with animals. But so long as you don’t venture into town centres on Friday and Saturday nights, you can generally avoid them. Meanwhile, there are also quite a lot of pets to see. They come in all shapes and sizes. It's fun to note down as many different kinds as you can and to gently laugh at just how much they look like their owners. It's also nice to judge people depending on the kind of pets they own. This book will help guide you through that enjoyable process.

56 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2016

Reviews

[Alex Sarll]

Based on this example, the spoof update of I-Spy isn't quite as funny as that for Ladybird, but they do have a higher wordcount so you can't just read them in the shop. Gains points with lots of jokes about cats being arseholes, and the picture for Pub Dog being a Border terrier almost as fine as the one we used to have, without whom my dad was not allowed in the local.

[Ray Smillie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mildly amusing in an attempt to do for I Spy books what the generally superior Ladybird spoof books are doing. Highlight for me is the photo of Geoff Capes and one of his many budgies. Another bonus is that I bought this for a pound, brand new, none of your second hand nonsense. Hope I feature in I Spy Tightwads.