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michaelcornelissen 's review for:
Pax
by Sara Pennypacker
I read the dutch translation of this book. I read this book because it was on the shortlist of the 'Kind & Jeugdjury 2016-2017'.
The book is pretty wellwritten and the translation was good. The illustrations by Jon Klassen are very appealling.
About the story:
I disliked the fact that the book doesn't address the fact that keeping a fox as a pet animal is unjust. The ending of the book gives a slight hint to that, but it stays unspoken.
Along the story a lot of different themes are adressed (war, loneliness, animal welfare, ...) but none of them are properly elaborated.
Reading the ending it felt quite hurried, as if the writer was going to run out of pages and quickly ended his story.
Nonetheless I liked the writing style, so I'll definitely will look into other work of this writer.
The book is pretty wellwritten and the translation was good. The illustrations by Jon Klassen are very appealling.
About the story:
I disliked the fact that the book doesn't address the fact that keeping a fox as a pet animal is unjust. The ending of the book gives a slight hint to that, but it stays unspoken.
Along the story a lot of different themes are adressed (war, loneliness, animal welfare, ...) but none of them are properly elaborated.
Reading the ending it felt quite hurried, as if the writer was going to run out of pages and quickly ended his story.
Nonetheless I liked the writing style, so I'll definitely will look into other work of this writer.