The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story

Will start by saying the illustrations are beautiful and the writing for the most part is fantastic.The main issue seems to be the books own confusion as to what its purpose is.The sentiment, underlying message and values, illustrations and science are all fantastic, but the pages jump from warm children's picture book language to large paragraphs of science education far beyond the reading age of prior pages. This results in a really fractured read for both child and adult with no real indication of tone or pace.

This book is really unique and beautiful. I welled up a bit reading it to myself because its meaning and depth is quite profound. Meanwhile the children loved learning of new concepts like genes, diversity and evolution. Wide ranging, Deep, and beautiful, like our world.

Amazing book for children and adults.

Wunderbare wahre Geschichte, so warm und lebendig erzählt und gemalt, ein Beispiel für die unerschöpflichen Zusmmenhänge zwischen Poesie und Wissenschaft, ein Bilderbuch für junge bis alte Erwachsene, Kinder wären vom Text überfordert.

I got this book for Christmas for my 5 year old great grandson. He loved it so much that he demanded his parents read it over-and-over, every day. Highly recommended.