Joanna
As an animal lover and appreciator of our natural world, this little tome was just the thing for lifting my spirits.
As we all know, animals are weirdos, and each comic in this book gives you a heart-lifting boost of animal weirdo serotonin with some interesting nature factoids. If you’ve ever watched birds being birds in their bird world and loved it, you’ll know what I mean. And it’s not just birds here - there are lots of other animals and plants that pop their snouts/stems/antennae in. There are also important messages delivered really well around species decline, invasive species, and climate change.
Mosco’s comics convey a childlike wonder with a quiet smile, provoke an amused groan or a chuckle, warm a swelling heart, and make you wish you could just give that crazy bird/salamander/moth/squid/dinosaur/rodent/shrub/microbe a cuddle - and then make plans to act on your renewed resolve to help protect them.
As an Australian, it’s helpful for me - and hopefully others - to know that the author is American, so many species and locations in the book are in reference to North America as well as northern hemisphere seasons and traditions. But there is plenty here to satisfy readers from anywhere.
Mosco clearly knows her biology, and her appreciation for all creatures’ and ecologies’ important places in the natural world underpins her art. We’re living in their world, and we just happen to be lucky enough to observe them going about their business.
This would be a great gift for anyone who appreciates art, animals and nature. It does contain some innocent animal mating innuendo, but I’d say it’s totally appropriate for kids as well as adults.
I loved this game, 10/10.
Side note: I’m glad to see that the balloon in this game gets zero points. Balloons are terrible. ZERO points for balloons!
Thank you Rosemary Mosco, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for the digital advance review copy. All opinions are my own.
As an animal lover and appreciator of our natural world, this little tome was just the thing for lifting my spirits.
As we all know, animals are weirdos, and each comic in this book gives you a heart-lifting boost of animal weirdo serotonin with some interesting nature factoids. If you’ve ever watched birds being birds in their bird world and loved it, you’ll know what I mean. And it’s not just birds here - there are lots of other animals and plants that pop their snouts/stems/antennae in. There are also important messages delivered really well around species decline, invasive species, and climate change.
Mosco’s comics convey a childlike wonder with a quiet smile, provoke an amused groan or a chuckle, warm a swelling heart, and make you wish you could just give that crazy bird/salamander/moth/squid/dinosaur/rodent/shrub/microbe a cuddle - and then make plans to act on your renewed resolve to help protect them.
As an Australian, it’s helpful for me - and hopefully others - to know that the author is American, so many species and locations in the book are in reference to North America as well as northern hemisphere seasons and traditions. But there is plenty here to satisfy readers from anywhere.
Mosco clearly knows her biology, and her appreciation for all creatures’ and ecologies’ important places in the natural world underpins her art. We’re living in their world, and we just happen to be lucky enough to observe them going about their business.
This would be a great gift for anyone who appreciates art, animals and nature. It does contain some innocent animal mating innuendo, but I’d say it’s totally appropriate for kids as well as adults.
I loved this game, 10/10.
Side note: I’m glad to see that the balloon in this game gets zero points. Balloons are terrible. ZERO points for balloons!
Thank you Rosemary Mosco, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for the digital advance review copy. All opinions are my own.