A review by snazel
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

3.0

Fun and dreamy little story about a found family made up of a hunter and the creatures he befriends (starting with a mermaid friend). Each chapter functions as it's own little short story. Which makes the bizarre retconning of the whole story in the last chapter especially weird? It's like the editor said "test groups said this book made people want to be mermaids, gotta make it sound bad" and they hurriedly cobbled together a moral about human life being great because you can get bored-- also the rest of the stories didn't happen. Excuse me?

I'd make my own final chapter, where I reading it to small people.