A review by woodlandbooklover
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs

3.0

This book is in small nuggets so it is easy to put down and pick up later. I found it hard to sit and read several sections back to back. Each section works as a meditation on the human and the non-human, and has wonderful information about the animals, the environment, and history. There is no real evolution or development in the narrator throughout; he seems the same in the last section as in the first, and that made it hard for me to emotionally invest in him or his journey. But in isolation, the sections are stunning. I will use sections of this to teach creative nonfiction writing to my students.