![]() ![]() ![]() Andrae can write very well, he needs to be less lazy. These are impressionable minds we're inserting ideas into. Or perhaps I don't read enough shit ones so my standards are too high. The people who think this is somehow an exceptional book in my view just can't be reading enough picture books. It's a subtle boundary, but when it's crossed, it's crossed. ![]() When I read this to my child I can hear the contempt in my voice, so I'm giving this one away. This book for me (no doubt unwittingly) perpetuates the patriarchal trope that the base unit of everything is male. And honestly, the zebra says his lady friend likes his stripes? She has stripes too, idiots. Hello, reproduction? Guess what, lady tigers are scary too. How many more times do we have to read about lions being fucking kings? And all the animals are he. The animals are overly anthropomorphised and stereotyped to boot. Guy can rhyme with his eyes closed, and here he has. ![]()
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