Thank you so much Papercutz and NetGalley for providing me with an arc of this amazing graphic novel in exchange for my honest review!

This was so good!! I loved it so much!!! I really had the best time reading this one. Beautiful, colorful and detailed illustrations accompany a fun, cute, thoughtful, educational and heartwarming story. I am going to be rereading this one more than once! And I hereby highly recommend it to kids of any age ;) who like learning nature and animal facts and are concerned about the extinction of wild animals. The facts are told in a very easy to comprehend way while Jackson visits animal habitats around the world with his imaginary animal friend Irwin and all with a reason and a lovely result in Jackson’s real life. So there’s always a great message apart from the educational one. And after every habitat, there’s an easy fun game to enjoy.

This starts with Jackson’s father (I loved their relationship!!) making a mystery casserole with leftovers. Jackson doesn’t want to eat it so Irwin takes him to visit different animals and their habitats, leading to hilarious and slightly grose food facts, which make Jackson eat the casserole when they get back and he discovers that he loves it! And when Jackson is scared of moving, Irwin takes him to lots of places around the world again, all different habitats of wild animals who are losing more and more of their territories, their homes and again we get to learn a lot about them. Jackson still isn’t excited about moving afterwards, but he isn’t scared anymore!

I really enjoyed this quick comic. I loved how his stuffy came to life and was the one doing the teaching. I learned things I did not know and had a few laughs along the way!

This felt less like a book with an actual story than just a story setup followed by an info dump, but I think that overall this is a nice way of teaching kids about animals.

I love books like this that make science accessible to young people, and this one is so much fun. It starts out with a funny family story and then you get to follow around the world learning about interesting parts of nature, with fun puzzles and games between sections. I recommend this for schools and families, and I think adults will enjoy reading this together. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

I have mixed reviews about this book. I was super impressed with the first section of this book titled “Jackson’s Dinner Adventure”. It was both fun and educational. I appreciated that the book did not have any bad language or potty humor like many other graphic novels. The graphics were awesome, and I loved the brain breaks for kids in the middle of the reading. This book made learning FUN!

The second section, titled “Jackson’s Moving Adventure” seemed to take a dark turn, telling young Jackson how the Painted Wolves in Africa are disappearing because their habitat is being ruined by humans, who are creating grazing land for cattle. Then they move on to Brazil where, once again, humans are ruining things for the native Hyacinth Macaw by removing palm trees to make space for grazing land for cattle. (And here I’m starting to wonder if the author is a vegan, because why else are we hating grass fed cows so much?) Then we move on to the North Pole where the arctic is being destroyed by…you guessed it, humans! Why on earth are we putting all of this on the 9 and 10 year olds reading this book? Post-covid kids don’t need another anxiety inducing book. Kids that age want action and adventure, like we saw in “Jackson’s Dinner Adventure”. More fun education, less dark drama please.

Thank you to NetGalley and Papercutz for my advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest feedback.

<i>Jackson’s Wilder Adventures</i> is brilliant!

Now this is the sort of book that I can unquestionably and excitedly recommend to kids and parents. It’s a book I’d love to have for my kids as well. Any book that addresses the very real feelings that children will experience in their day to day by relating it to an educational adventure about animals is definitely something I can get on board with.

Reading level wise, this is probably a little on the advanced side, but I loved that there was a bit of pronunciation support for the toughest of words.

I loved Jack and his stuffed Thylacine, Irwin—what an incredibly fitting name for a creature from Australia! The two different adventures they go on were fun, bright, and colorful. Even better, they offer so much to learn about different sorts of animals, their foods, and their habitats. Bonus points, honestly, for discussing the effects of climate change and how humans have contributed to a great many animals’ loss of habitat.

Dad was a pretty cool character, too. I loved his brief yet wonderful interactions with his son. It was also pretty exciting to see what could potentially be a single dad connect with his son so wonderfully.

I wholeheartedly believe this is a pretty exceptional book and hopefully the beginning of an exceptional series!