The Bangolin

I think especially childhood is a bewildering and a peak place to live. I remember as a kid finding one of the few moments of clarity in my childhood would be in the presence of living things. And we need to find ways to offer children access to that kind of shine so that they will want to protect it. Do you have a favourite among the animals in the book? Is that a question we're allowed to ask? I do tend to say a pangolin. They look too good for our fallen old world. It wasn't just that they were catching the snow leopards and the tigers and the various monkeys. It was that they then belonged to them because that goes very