Today is my spot on the blog tour for ‘My Animal Family’ by Michael Botur. Thank you to Blackberry Book Tours for my spot on the tour and the E-ARC I received to review.

About the Author:

Author Bio –

Botur is author of four acclaimed indie short story collections and one collection which hardly anybody read. He published the novel Moneyland in 2017 which has had thousands of reads on Wattpad and in 2019 is publishing the novels Crimechurch and Moneyland: Payback.

Botur holds a Masters in Creative Writing degree from AUT University and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism Studies from Massey University, as well as degrees in arts and literacy. Botur makes a living from writing as a columnist, corporate communications writer, blogger, advertising writer and journalist.

Botur has published journalism in most major NZ newspapers and magazines including New Zealand Herald, Herald on Sunday, Sunday Star-Times, The Spinoff, Noted, Mana and North & South.In 2017 Botur launched the only online ‘gallery’ for NZ short story writers, http://www.NZShortStories.com, where he makes much of his published work free to read and download.

• Website:  https://nzshortstories.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBotur

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelBoturWriter/

About My Animal Family

Picture Book, 20 pages.

Illustrated by Emma Weakley and Michael Botur

Book available here: https://www.wheelers.co.nz/books/9780473610494-my-animal-family/?bic=ZSPBNZ&ageRange=0-52&dateAdded=60&page=5

Kids, it’s time to meet distant relatives you never knew were in your family… ‘My Animal Family’ is for every child amazed to learn humans are actually animals. This illustrated children’s book teaches you about your place in the natural world and reminds us we need to give all creatures great and small the same respect as human beings. Your guides to the phylogenetic tree are Abe and Violet Botur – two Homo sapiens siblings with a love of nature. Join two Kiwi kids as they find out how all life is related and meet many of our distant relatives, from Ape to Zyzzyva!

My Review:

I received a review copy of ‘My Animal Family’ by Michael Botur from Blackberry Book Tours in return for my honest review as part of the blog tour.

This book is a quirky launchpad for children who are inquisitive about the natural world around them. They will become fascinated by the sheer number of ways in which humans and animals are related, as well as gain valuable information about the interrelationship of animal families. This book really ignites kids’ imaginations and makes them start to ponder such questions as ‘if I lactate, can I be related to a frog?’

The illustrations are so cute and colorful, and an absolute delight. It is lovely the way Botur’s two children are inside the pages, exploring their natural animal habitat, to find answers among the tall trees about what to look for in an animal and to find out who’s related to who. Children will love all the cute animal illustrations and there is the extra bonus of smaller facts being hidden in among the illustrations, so that I learnt a few new facts about animals.

My Rating:
 5/5

This tour continues until 24.02.22, so look out for more posts on Twitter and Instagram.