WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A KINKAJOU?

by Alice Gilborn ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 8, 1976

A book to satisfy the secret fantasies of all animal lovers. Gilborn has written the fond. slightly bemused story of growing up with a mother who was addicted to animals the way other people are addicted to alcohol or gambling. The last time she took a head count, mother Cee had 64 horses, dogs, ponies, cats, goats and assorted other four-legged friends lodged on the family's Colorado homestead. She grew up accepting the fact that animals came first, children second. Sheldon the coatamundi had to have his raw egg and Twinkie for breakfast: Harry the mouse lived in a burner on the stove; Samantha the kinkajou had to be put in an oxygen tent when she caught pneumonia. The grocery bill was eclipsed by the grain bill and Gilborn remembers when ""a small black lamb shared my bottle."" Cee had no aptitude for domesticity and her daughter became accustomed to living amidst dog hairs and horse manure in a jolly, chaotic home--which she revists each summer. A mild, low-key book actually, considering all those critters with their lusty feeding and breeding habits. The people, Cee included, remain in the background, smiling sheepishly.

Pub Date: March 8, 1976

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1976

Categories: NONFICTION