Humanimal

 Juvenile Nonfiction 

    Don't you hate the expression "dumb animals"?  How do you feel if you lose a beloved animal companion and someone tells you it's only a cat 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️ or dog?  Or how about when people don't seem to care about a species going extinct unless that would have an adverse on effect humans?

     Let's face it.  Ever since people bought into the myth that we're the crown 👑 of creation and all other species are on the Earth 🌎 for us to exploit it's been all downhill.

     Fortunately Christopher Lloyd's Humanimal: Incredible Ways Animals Are Just Like Us! busts species superiority bullshit for younger readers.  Lloyd's text and Mark Ruffle's illustrations present portraits of critters that work together in communities, experience and display complex emotions, and display skills such as language and tool creation we thought we had a monopoly on.

     Cultivating in young children a respect for the other species with whom we share this beautiful orb moving through space will go a long way toward creating changes they and we need to survive.  So I consider this book 📖 a most excellent acquisition for school and public libraries.

On a purrrsonal note, with the weather getting hot make sure your companion animals have access to water and shade.  And don't ever lock them in hot cars.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to all who take care for and advocate for creatures great and small.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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