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K-3
When Otter visits an aquarium with her adult-human minder, Otter Keeper, she's overjoyed by the prospect of meeting "animals that live in the sea." The book reads more like a tour of an aquarium than a story, although there's some drama when Otter's stuffed bear falls into Penguin Island. The spick-and-span art is good company for the immaculately simple sentences.