The Carnival of Animals

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Summary: Carnival of Animals
Review: The Carnival of Animals is a wonderful tale written in a warm and uncomplicated style that allows the reader to truly enjoy not only the antics of the characters, but as important, to make connections to their own life stories. It transports you to where our furry friends/family live and often rule. Too frequently we become trapped and spun about in the whirlwind of stressors from competing demands at work, school and home. As these mount, the moments spent with our "other" family members are some of the most rewarding. In the Carnival of Animals we are taken for a delightful journey across the times and lives of the Smith's family of others, discovering in their world connections back to the joy and sorrow in our diverse and interdependent family of humans, cats, fish, gerbils and dogs. There exists another dimension to life that tracks along with the too brief existence of our other family members, one that has a different rhythm, a different beat to its clock. The Carnival throws open a window to that other dimension and in so doing opens a vital channel into our hearts.