A review by giantarms
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

3.0

This is an absolutely beautiful book full of wonderful imagery and touching moments. But I cannot stop thinking about the mermaid flopping across the meadow. A real mixed bag here that I'll be thinking about a long time. For a grown person, sure, this is great. But if you've got a kid at ALL sensitive about issues of life and death, give it a pass cause there's a lot of that in here. Fortunately, my younger kid fell asleep and my older one was content demand the definitions of unproblematic words.