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Kerr, Judith

Mister Cleghorn's Seal

95 pp. | HarperCollins/Harper | June, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-00-815730-2 $14.99
(2) 1-3 Recently retired newsagent Mister Cleghorn impulsively adopts Charlie, an orphaned seal pup. What follows is an adventure involving a tin bathtub, a train, lots of slippery fish, and difficult zoo politics before Charlie finds a happy home. This story is thoroughly and sweetly old-fashioned, in its reassuring narrative voice, in its olden-days setting, and in its soft-edged pencil illustrations.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016

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