A review by literately
Capyboppy by Bill Peet

3.0

Entertaining quick read with kids. Cautionary tale about why we don’t keep wild animals as pets with some interesting facts about capybara thrown in. I did enjoy the fact that as a vintage read, it felt very relatable to real life. For example, the moment when the capybara injured the kid and the other child kicked the animal away out of instinct. The entire family felt bad for the capybara but that felt like a real, legitimate reaction to that frightening/stressful situation. And it was a very realistic reason for why keeping the capybara was no longer beneficial for the family or the animal.

We read this for the Build Your Library homeschool curriculum.