Friday, October 18, 2019

Books About Point of View: A Tale of Two Beasts

Like Do You Believe in Unicorns, Fiona Roberton's book, A Tale of Two Beasts, is a book about point of view. Unlike ...Unicorns, and this is in no way a criticism of Murgula's fabulous book, A Tale of Two Beasts is not subtle about the message at all.

This is going to be difficult but again I am going to tip toe through this as not to spoil anything for you...but buy this book.

The story is basically about a little girl who finds and an animal in the forest in distress. She jumps to the rescue and cares for this poor unfortunate creature as anyone would. You'd expect the adorable little creature to be grateful. I mean, wouldn't you?

The book is written in a way that throws a white hot light on how two folks can see the same event in totally different ways. The fact that it deals specifically in ones physical well being is a perfect since people's points of view can get very concrete and emotional when their physical well being is at the center of the debate.

It is a lesson that every child should be exposed to (and most politicians and policy makers these days as well).

The pictures are wonderful and help tell the story perfectly (and that's all I can say without ruining it for you).

Buy this book too.

Author: Fiona Roberton
Illustrator: by the author
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1444916726
ISBN-13: 978-1444916720
Date: 2015
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Price: $13.87 (as of the time of this post)
Where to buy: Amazon

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