What Would You Do If You Lived at the Zoo?

First off this book has cut outs. I LOVED that when I was a child. I don't know what about it but it made books so much more interesting for me. The book is about all the animals at the zoo. I like the overall aspect of the book introducing all the different animals, and I mean all. I think it is a great way to get children to learn the different animals.
I only have 2 beefs with this book though.
1. The pictures are so abstract that I think children get a distorted picture of animals they may not know very well. To me the pictures are fun, but I already know that a seal isn't purple and a pony blue. That is confusing to me in my 21 year old mind.
2. The sounds that the animals make in this book are ridiculous. If I were to say to you, "What animal makes the shizu-ziwu-ziwu sound?" I don't think you would have a clue?? Again not teaching the child listening or reading this book the sounds you would expect to hear is a bit trouble again to my 21 year old mind. I suppose they are a little bit fun to try to pronounce, but might not be so fun for a struggling or even new reader.
I guess I can look at it from my speech and language point of view... they are being introduced to a ton of phonemes.