It opens like any seek-and-find-book: as elaborately detailed, laugh-out-loud spreads by Chan (The Alpactory) show anthropomorphized animals of a variety of species enjoying the beach, the city, and so on, Epstein’s (the Snared series) chirpy narrator insists that readers spot...

A seek-and-find story with twists to spare. Let’s get this out of the way up front: Gordon, the purported star of this most unusual adventure, makes it plain early on that this being-found stuff isn’t for him, thanks very much,...