Every Home Needs an Elephant

Cute, simple story. I think the book would have benefited from being longer, though. The characters were flat – they were quirky, but there was nothing more profound. The plot jumped from one thing to the next without exploring the ideas and emotions that were happening. I know there's a lot of suspension of disbelief that's needed – buying an elephant at the grocery store, the casual use of carrying pigeons, teenagers that try to kidnap an elephant – but you can still have that fun, ‘quirky' story and dive a bit deeper. It felt like the story was stuck in between being a picture book and a chapter book.

I loved the illustrations, but the text font within them was a weird “computer” font that did not jive with the pictures or the story. I hope that's different in the final copies.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.