By The Fan Brothers
Our main character, Barnabus, is half elephant and half mouse and cute as can be. He is hidden away in a laboratory with other not quite perfect pets who don’t quite meet the requirements as perfect, genetically engineered pets for sale. Barnabus likes his bell jar home but yearns to see the outdoors as described to him by his friend, Pip, the cockroach. When Barnabus and his lab mates are labeled as failed projects and the thought of being recycled is too much, Barnabus stages a breakout and declares that, “Nothing is impossible.” He leads the others out of the lab overcoming many obstacles as all of them work together to get to freedom before they are captured by the Green Rubber Suits. I love when Barnabus exclaims, “He might not be perfect…But he was free,” What a great line! What a powerful message in this wonderfully illustrated tale of deep friendship and self appreciation!