Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold
My rating: 5/5 cats
i freaking love j. otto seibold, and you should, too. even though a lot of his books are out of print right now (why, mr. lunch, whyyyyyy??) you can at least get this one, brand spanking new out from mcsweeney’s mcmullens.
it is an absolutely charming and adorable book about a sloth who wins a shopping spree, but he only has three hours to get to the store and claim his prize! and being a sloth, he is so terribly slow!!
this is my favorite sequence, which shows how hard it is for a sloth to answer the phone, so you can understand how long it is going to take him to get across town:
aww, wookit his face!!
he is trying so hard!! and this is why sloths don’t have phones, usually.
the only reason i am reviewing this now, other than the fact that i want to extol the brilliance of j. otto seibold, is that i recently came across this video on the youtubes and i couldn’t even believe how horrifying they look when they are wet and they are all shrunken-skeletor with giant claws-ish.
and because i know a lot of you never watch the videos i so lovingly put in my reviews (koff, greg, koff), even though this one is really short, here is all you need to know:
ewwwww!!!! but also awwww!!!!
the only problem i have with this book is its title. the sloth is never lost; he knows just where he has to go, it’s just that he might need to take a nap or two along the way. these are lost sloths:
and these sloths know right where they are:
but still – this is just a wonderful book and i am so glad to have more seibold in my life – seriously, i want you to check it out, okay? promise!
