Publisher's Synopsis
For some time after Alice Singer learned to talk properly there was still one word that never seemed to come out right - the word was animal which always came out as aminal. Her brother Oliver always teases her and when her class study farm animals,Alice finds other words to use - such as creature and livestock. But when Alice's surprise birthday present turns out to be a guinea pig, she names him Aminal to make her funny word a real one - and to annoy her big brother.