A Tower of Giraffes: Animals in Groups

I'll confess some skepticism toward those "remarkable" collective nouns for animals you see lists of everywhere. A "gaggle" of geese? Fine, that's in my OED. But a "prickle" of hedgehogs or an "ostentation" of peacocks? I don't quite believe that those words have actually been used, outside of a cute gift book or an Internet listicle. So that's the hurdle I had to be charmed over by this new picture-book celebration of such terms, but charmed I surely was, both by Wright's lovely, tactile pen-and-collage illustrations and by her text, which resists mere quirkiness and manages to be simple, informative, and surprising all at once. Consider me won over. (Ages 3 to 5)