The Blue Jackal (Hardcover)

from SadieSForsythe

A cute little book that my 5 & 8 year old quite enjoyed. As an adult, I was especially pleased with the artwork and the fun of the rhyming verses, but I'm not so sure about the moral of the story.

from Rosenectur

The artwork is wonderful (and there is a nice explanation of the style and history of the art in the back of the book.) The story it written in a nice rhyming format and is a cute story. The five year old enjoyed it a lot. She really enjoying the pictures of the different types of animals and poi...

from Kesterbird

The drawings/art style is really just riviting- we spent some period of an hour or more inventing stories about all the background critters and why the tiger looks so upset, and afterword found ourselves researching the group the style is derived from. Wonderful. the story was a tad disappointing...

from artistlibrarian

Viswanath's retelling of The Blue Jackal is in rhyme, making it enjoyable to read aloud. Children can search for Juno the jackal on each page, who becomes blue after falling in a vat of Indigo. The other animals, who once abused and neglected him, now think Juno must be a god and seek to obey his...

from Vintage_books_baby

I received this book in exchange for a review. Re-written from a 3rd Century BCE Indian fable, The Blue Jackal is a story set to rhyme. Juno, a small jackal, is not included in the jackal activities. He was the runt of the litter and often left hungry in the forest. One day Juno tries to chase an...