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See You in the Cosmos
Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond
The Terranauts: A Novel
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Gumnut Babies
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Highly Illogical Behaviour
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Revenger
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See What I Have Done
The Dog, Ray
Forgetting Foster
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Potter)
Urgh. Reviewed, and then lost it when the page decided to play games!This seemed to have a bit more of a moral to it than the previous book. Before I got to the end of the story, I was thinking it was going to be 3 - 3.5 stars.
There were things that sat weirdly with me, such as the wording of the "riddles" which often time seemed to be a bit more of a teasing poem than a riddle, but this could be because the book was published 111 years ago. I'm sure they're more amusing when reading them to a child, rather than sitting here on the couch, reading them all by my twenty-seven year old self.
The other slightly concerning image was that the squirrels kept bringing smaller animals as peace offerings to the owl, so they could collect nuts on his island.
This does make sense, because it acknowledges the way the animal kingdom works-that animals eat animals-while making it fanciful and fun for kids, But at the same time would be like me offering up a large dog to a man-eating tiger so that it wouldn't eat me. I certainly wouldn't feel good about it.
And all of Beatrix's stories make us see these potential "prey" as individuals, so we can't help but wonder about THOSE mice, or THAT mole the squirrels brought to the owl. But I did love the fact that Old Brown eventually snapped at all of Nutkin's goading.