The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story Hardcover – Picture Book, 18 Mar. 2021

I bought it as a present for a friend who loved the illustrations and the story. So not just for kids. Read it if you want to reach out to your 10 year old self.

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.

I bought this for a very able 6.5yr old granddaughter. The content covers reproduction and the vocabulary and understanding of concepts is more appropriate for an 8yrs-10yr old child with parental guidance.

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.