No pet stores.Īnd for fuck's sake.Volunteers needed in May! Click here to sign up. I won't even quibble about the fact that a pig lacks the manual dexterity to turn a doorknob, let alone hold a hammer or a paintbrush.Īll I'm asking is that you think things through a *little* bit. I'm not going to pester you with questions about why the animals all speak the same language. I don't need to know what sort of numinous porcine deity they pray to.
I'm not going to quiz you about how the economy of your Animal-Farm lite society functions. I'm not asking you to engage in Dune-Level worldbuilding. Why the fuck would they have a zoo in the first place?ĭon't get me wrong here. Why? Well, because your entire world is ostensibly populated with sentient animals. We're all onboard with that.īut when your talking animals take a field trip? Maybe you shouldn't have them go to the fucking zoo. I don't care if you populate your world with talking animals. He buys another sentient creature to give away as a present.ĭoesn't that strike anyone else as kinda fucked up?Ī simple request to all the children's authors out there. Let's jump straight into the fact that in this world where animals are people and they can talk, Puddle effectively buys a person. And therefore in a world full of talking animals it would have nothing to make it unique. Let's breeze right past the fact that the only thing that makes a parrot cool is the fact that it's an animal that can talk. And (spoiler alert) buys a parrot for his friend. The problem is that Puddle, a sentient pig capable of speech, goes shopping at a pet store. In this story, Puddle is trying to figure out what to get his friend for his birthday. The book's two main characters, as you might have guessed, are Toot and Puddle.
That said, there's some weird shit going on here. In some ways, that's the only review that matters. He reads a lot with his mom, but lately the Toot and Puddle books are the ones he's been talk about.
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