A review by katymul
Just You and Me: Remarkable Relationships in the Wild by Alexander Vidal, Jennifer Ward

informative mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.5

I like what this book is trying to do! My main complaint is that I wish the rhymes that introduce the symbiotic animal pairings gave a little more of the information. I realize the prose text covers the explanation, but the rhyme often leaves it quite mysterious even with the picture to help. You want to preserve the ability to read just the rhyme part of the story and still feel like you understand the animal pair's relationship, and not every spread delivers on that. I'd also have liked a LITTLE more detail on the extra prose passages, to justify the interruption of the flow of the book.

But it has some very cool symbiotic animal relationships, and it spins that into cooperation metaphors, which makes it a good lesson.