While the rest of the kids are struggling to climb the mountain, Buddy has started looking for his family. The picture show the first Monarchs he encounters. Imagine his astonishment that he looks nothing like them: they have pointy noses and he has a beautiful knobby nose!
Appearance is not always reality. I learned this truth in my high school English class when we read Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen). The kids assumed that Carlos Crocodile was going to have them over for lunch and eat them with his shiny big teeth, but, in reality, he’s a guy waiting by the river for the delivery service to bring a vegan lunch for his family picnic.
Just to get things straight, everyone’s a vegan in this book. When you see jaguars, they’re vegan. When you see crocodiles, they’re vegan. When you see snakes and spiders, they’re vegan. No one, no matter how big, scary, or ugly they may be, will eat you.
