Jan Brett's Animal Treasury | 
pickStunning art, the quality of the narrative varies.
Town Mouse Country Mouse is a reproduction of the original tale with glorious detail in both the nature of country mouse and the luxuriously cozy surroundings of city mouse, not to mention the various other animals in their imaginative ensembles. Top notch way to engage with a classic.
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Robotswithpersonality 2/? Armadillo Rodeo, which I assume is a Brett original, felt a bit like a culture shock fever dream, but I assume there are a large number of southwestern Americans, not just Texans, who will relate to and enjoy the imagery and action. As always, the depictions of animals and nature are on point. 3w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? The Umbrella is particularly captivating in depicting lush and vibrant fauna and flora of the cloud forest. I had to actively suppress the adult part of my brain asking why the father was okay with the kid going into the forest alone to try and spot, among other wildlife, a big cat, aka a carnivorous predator (is that redundant? Are all predator's carnivorous?) even if most of the time they don't eat children, and the reality that while 3w
Robotswithpersonality 4/? the animals are interacting with the umbrella, the kid is climbing a huge tree, that eventually gives him a view of the top of the cloud forest, again, alone. 🫣 Just, suspend your disbelief and enjoy the visuals. 3w
Robotswithpersonality 5/? Three Snow Bears being an Arctic remix on Goldilocks with polar bears that are kind to sled dogs and not too put out by home invasion to say goodbye at the end was certainly a new experience. I'd love to see an Inuit own voices' review of this story in particular because I think Brett went for accuracy on much of the clothing and home details resembling those traditionally used by those Indigenous to the polar bear region of Canada/ 3w
Robotswithpersonality 6/6 /the far North. 3w
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