You know, I would have enjoyed this so much had it not been for the way each and every animal in the book was gendered male. In a book about endangered species, it made me think maybe the species are endangered because they have no females!!!![return][return]So, the distracting sexism and the need to re-gender half the animals while I was reading kind of undercut the otherwise useful message. [return][return]Still I give it a 3 for what it was and bump it another half star to 3.5 because of the use of humor at the end, and the happy ending that happened anyway, and the afterward about the status of the various species. ( )

You know, I would have enjoyed this so much had it not been for the way each and every animal in the book was gendered male. In a book about endangered species, it made me think maybe the species are endangered because they have no females!!!!

So, the distracting sexism and the need to re-gender half the animals while I was reading kind of undercut the otherwise useful message.

Still I give it a 3 for what it was and bump it another half star to 3.5 because of the use of humor at the end, and the happy ending that happened anyway, and the afterward about the status of the various species. ( )