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40 pp.
| Lerner/Millbrook |
March, 1999 |
LibraryISBN 0-7613-1318-4$$23.90
(3)
K-3
Both Ward's dryly humorous text and her crisp, carefully drafted, realistic watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations add panache to the overly familiar Aesop tale of "slow and steady wins the race." The book's type design rolls, leaps, and plunges along with the characters. A section at the end of the book provides interesting facts about the audience of animal spectators represented in the artwork.