26 months - I pretty much ignored the authors text and we used the book as a fun way to talk about similarities and differences. If you spend time talking about how the items are similar and then say ".... and do they both wear glasses?" I found my two year old got the humor and loved saying "NO!" followed by "That's silly!". ( )

An interesting take on what things have in common. "How are an eggplant and an artichoke alike? They both don't go to a carnival."

A book on pairs and how they are different. ( )

“How are an apple and an orange alike?”

Did you say they were both fruits? No. Foods? No. From trees? No. They both don’t wear glasses! So begins this book of illustrated offbeat and quirky riddles. Each page shows a pair of items, such as a bike and a motorcycle, a spoon and a fork, and a bird and a kite, that have an obvious connection. But turn the page and you’ll find the answer to the riddle isn’t exactly what you had guessed it would be.

The text in this book is presented in a straightforward pattern: riddle, answer, riddle, answer. Each answer is always something that the objects or animals don’t do. The watercolor and ink illustrations follow the same pattern. First, the two items in the riddle are shown against a simple background. Turn the page to see an illustration of the two objects/animals doing the ridiculous things the riddle says they don’t do. My favorite is the picture of the cupcake and ice cream cone scuba diving. The book ends with an open ended riddle: “How are you and I alike? We both don’t…” which encourages the reader to answer the riddle on their own.

Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-195-apples-oranges-going-banana...

Not a book to read to kids in order to teach a concept, it does not hold attention or lead anywhere it is totally hard to follow.
http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/childrens/authors/details.aspx?tpid=695 ( )