A review by onceuponacarm
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

2.0

I loved the beginning of this book and the writing was beautiful, but I couldn't get past the violence of how "the hunter" acquired his animal family--by killing one's mother and stealing another from his family. That's not how family works! But I thought the relationship between the hunter and the mermaid was pretty nice--much happier than any other animal-spouse folktale I can think of (though I kept expecting it to take a downward turn, it never did).