this book contains a very important lesson: even Roald Dahl can't win them all.

yes, he is the mind behind Matilda, and The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a soldier memoir that launched me on a dad-like lifelong mild interest in World War II, and the criminally underrated Fantastic Mr. Fox, but he also wrote this, a moral/didactic misfire that is also boring.

i also think, like the protagonist, that hunting for fun is bad, but so does Fantastic Mr. Fox, and that book is whimsical enough to warrant a Wes Anderson adaptation.

this one does not even warrant mention in anyone's naming of Roald Dahl's works off the top of their head.

remember that old series where i review books i read forever ago? this is that

خواندن این کتاب توسط کودکان شاید کمتر از نیم ساعت زمان ببرد ولی یکی از بهترین و آموزنده‌ترین نوشته ها در رابطه با محیط زیست است ، خواندنش را به عاشقان محیط زیست توصیه می‌کنم