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Keane, Dave

Who Wants a Tortoise?

40 pp. | Knopf | July, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-385-75417-0 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-385-75418-7 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-385-75419-4
(1) K-3 Illustrated by K. G. Campbell. The narrator longs for a puppy for her birthday--but instead gets a tortoise. At an appropriately slow-and-steady pace, owner and pet do begin to warm up to each other. When the tortoise gets lost, the girl realizes how much she cares. The narrator's initial petulance, revealed in the frank narrative and soft watercolor and colored-pencil pictures, is both entertaining and realistic.
Reviewer: Julie Roach | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016

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