It's a Moose!

Delightful story with fascinating pictures! Fun for all ages

Loved it, highly recommend it!

This is the story of a family of people who end up having a non-anthropomorphic moose for a baby. Not like, a little moose-child. It's just a moose that somehow comes out of the mom, I guess, and then they treat it like a baby.Only it's tough, because the moose is not a human, and they are not capable of taking care of it. So they just keep treating it like a human but making accommodations for it. And it doesn't seem to have any sort of emotions or sentience or familial understanding because... it's an animal and not a person or a cute, talking animal-person like you see in many books. It's just an animal.Finally, they just take it to the forest and let it out, and he's just like, OK, I guess I live here now, because, again, it's just an animal. And so they leave him there, and the family seems sad but the moose, again, being just an animal, seems ambivalent to everything.Then on the last page they're just like, oh by the way, the moose sent us a postcard from the forest (...so I guess the moose somehow IS capable of human interactions?) and it's a very short, terse, almost perfunctory little message.And then, that's just the end of the book. The end.The illustrations are similarly strange to me. It is very colorful and stylized, and includes a fair bit of artistry to the scenes. It uses interesting perspectives, interesting dynamic lighting and shadows, and has a neat full two-page spread of the forest that looks kind of like an old 1990s video game at the end.But the aesthetic, in contrast to the layout, also somehow kind of looks like an off-brand greeting card.It's got some neat merits, and is pretty unique. It's just not a success.

Awful story! So sad! Had to return the book after kids dissolved into tears at the endIng...