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Cuevas, Michelle

The Town of Turtle

40 pp. | Houghton | April, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-74982-5 $17.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Cátia Chien. A turtle living alone in a grim part of the world dreams of "a better home," so he renovates his shell, then adds on top a garden, which calls for houses, and so on. Rendered in acrylic, pencil, and paper collage, many of Chien's abstract compositions are stunning, but with such a marvelously inventive premise, the story would have benefited from easier-to-decipher art.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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