Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals — a giveaway!
Would you love to win a copy of Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mammals*? We are giving away two copies here and one on Instagram!
*Links for the book are affiliate links! A small amount of change comes our way when you buy using the link! Thanks!
It’s been a while now that we’ve been watching the progress of this project, although I never saw anything like the whole thing together until my copy arrived. Little hands took it away from me promptly, and before I knew it a little someone was coming into my sewing room to recite whole chunks!
That is the kind of book this is.
Readers here know that I am picky picky picky, not only about endorsing books but about in general saying that something new is worth your time and money. I like things that have stood the test of time… most often I find that new books want to circumvent the necessary “hidden” quality that art must have. They rationalistically move directly to the message. “We can’t do the indirect thing anymore,” they assert. “Things are too far gone. We have to tell people — especially children — the bare facts of things.”
I couldn’t disagree more. The more in crisis the world is, the more it needs art and beauty! And the more it has to trust in a slow process of building up a sense of what is fitting… and the more it needs the attraction of the Good, the pull towards something it can’t quite name. Delight heals more than precept, the worse off we find ourselves.
This is what is attempted in this book. Only time can tell if Matt Mehan and John Folley have succeeded. But the depth of what we have here makes me hopeful for the slow rebuilding of our culture.
The book reminds me most of Edward Lear (Calico Pie was an early favorite of mine), although many have mentioned Dr. Suess. I also thought of Lewis Carroll, of course — his Jabberwocky lyrics get a nod in M5.
Take The Plee:
Consider the sound of a billion bees,
Then add the crash of a thousand seas,
Next imagine the blue jay’s scream,
But times’d by twelve, or so it would seem;
Add to that a piglet’s squeal,
Only louder, like a siren’s peal,
And then you’ve just begun to see
how loud the tiny Plee can be.
Frankly, and with all due respect to the poet, and with apologies for my bias towards a family member, I find it amazing that the same Artist who can do this can also come up with these fantastically unique and delightful illustrations for M5. I think we can look forward to so much more, don’t you?
Although the book is so reasonably priced for the high quality production that it is (poetry! art! erudition! definitions! wit! wisdom!), I know that you would also appreciate a chance to win a copy. So here you go — just leave a comment here and we will choose two winners at random next week.
You can also go to my Instagram account to enter for a third chance to win! Details on that post!
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