Review: The Wump World

The Wump World by Bill Peet
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I bought this book at The Strand. The first time I read this, I was in elementary school, and my teacher was reading it aloud to the class. I'm not sure if this is the first time I'm rereading it since then, but it might be.

This book left quite an impression on me when I was a youngster. I was very into animals and environmentalism. Upon rereading it now, especially after reading other great children's books, I'm not sure it quite lived up to my memory of it, but I think it still deserves my esteem for the life it's had in my mind all these years.

I guess the main issue I have with this book is that I'm not quite sure what the message is. It seems to me that the strongest takeaway is that nature bounces back if we leave it alone, but is that really the message we want to be expressing? That's not the message I got as a kid, though, and that's probably the most important.

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