BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
An Elephant family decides to go on a picnic and day-trip to Human Town. Human Town is not as fun as it used to be because there are not very many humans left to watch. The elephant family sees behaviors of humans in Human Town that are causing human extinction.
Durant was clever in reversing the roles and having animals go for an outing to watch humans the way humans go to a zoo to watch animals. I was disappointed when this book felt more like a lecture than an enjoyable story. The book teaches that humans will go extinct because of their behaviors. Children might be frightened by this statement, and only adults will catch the irony that it is the animals that are currently going extinct although humans definitely can work on their behaviors. I don’t feel that everything said in this book rings true, and It left me feeling depressed.
Reviewer: PGPowers
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