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McCully, Emily Arnold

Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros Who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone...While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a Continent

48 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | June, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-553-52246-4 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-553-52247-1 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-52248-8
(2) K-3 In the mid-eighteenth century, a Dutch sea captain traveled around Europe exhibiting a rhinoceros named Clara. In McCully's genial version of this odd little chapter in history, illustrated with decorative watercolors, she imagines a loving relationship between Captain Van der Meer and "Clarakin." An afterword acknowledges our era's shift in consciousness ("Clara lived in a time before people understood her needs"). Resources.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2016

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