A review by jennmarshall27
The Elephant's Umbrella by Laleh Jaffari

3.0

This review contains spoilers. I tried to review without them, but it is hard to explain why I thought this book was just ok without spoilers.

An elephant has an umbrella and it flies away. First it finds a leopard and when asked if they could keep the umbrella the answer was no because the umbrella didn't approve of what the leopard was going to use it for. Next it finds a bear and the same thing happens. Finally it ends up back with the elephant.

I understand that this is supposed to be a story to show you should share. But the umbrella refuses to help the leopard and bear when really all they are doing is being themselves. I felt like the umbrella really just came across as judgemental.

The art is really cute, I just feel like the text could use some work and the umbrella needs to be more open minded.