Pangolins Didn't Do it! (It's Not My Fault Review)

 Every year the third Saturday in February is World Pangolin Day.  The poor pangolin has been hunted for meat and for his scales (he is the only scaled mammal) which some people think have medicinal uses and he was even blamed (but later exonerated) for being the one who passed COVID from bats to humans.  Pangolins have had it rough.  

In It's Not My Fault: A Pangolin's Manifesto by Rachel Shaw one pangolin wants you to hear his side of the story.

The book starts out by mentioning how the pangolin was linked to COVID and how he was hunted and explains that that is why he spends so much time at home.  With simple and adorable illustrations you get to see how this pangolin spends his time.  Reading and drawing and tending his plants.  Along the way he gives the reader advice.  Simple things he thinks would be good to do like, being kind to others, spending time in nature, or exercising.  The reader is also supplied with facts about pangolins.  Did you know that they can close their ears and nostrils so ants can't climb in?  This would be a great introduction to pangolins because there is a surprising amount of information here for so short a book.  It is a cute story that brings the plight of pangolins into the light and at the same time will make you smile.