Zucchini
Book description
A painfully shy young boy befriends a homeless baby ferret and gets as much comfort as he gives.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Zucchini as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Zucchini the ferret, born in the Bronx Zoo, leads a bleak life.
When he learns about the outside world, he yearns to escape—but when he does, it's straight into chaos.
I read Zucchini many times as a child and last read it in my 30s, and it's wonderfully more grimdark than I remember. Published in 1982, the book is 1980's-New-York gritty, and so are the hard adult lessons: fighting for your needs is full of risk; betrayal is common; love, compassion, and understanding are scarce; and idealism has an unsustainable cost.
But this makes the bits of joy that Zucchini…
From KJ's list on starring sentient animals (that not enough people know).
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