Review of the Day: The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers, ill. Shawn Harris

The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers
Illustrated by Shawn Harris
McSweeney’s and Knopf (first time I’ve seen that!)
$28.00
ISBN: 9781952119453
All ages
On shelves May 9th

The animal book. Much maligned. Loathed. Occasionally abhorred. Standouts aside (I see you, Charlotte) it’s a genre of children’s book that can go real bad, real fast. I have heard actual, honest-to-goodness children’s librarians say point blank that they cannot stand animals chapter book fiction. True story. And yet the reas...