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The Dancing Turtle

Authors: Pleasant DeSpain, Pleasant Despain   Illustrator: David Boston



Product Code: 502X
ISBN: 
978---08748-350-2-1
Size: 
11" Inches x 8.5"
Pages: 
32
Color: 
Four color
Binding: Hardcover
Age Range:
4 to 7
Grade Range:
PreK to 2

Guided Reading Level:  K   (other titles at Guided Reading Level K)
Character Values: 
Resourcefulness

Price: $15.95
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Turtle loves to dance and play the flute. But her exuberance puts her at risk when her music attracts the attention of a hunter who brings her home for turtle stew. After she is caught, her only hope for escape is the hunter's children ... and her own wit. This folktale, first told by the indigenous people of Brazil, is now told throughout Latin America. The versions are as different as the cultures that contain them, but all of them celebrate Turtle, who carries the world and its wisdom on her ....


AWARDS 

Parents' Choice Award
Bank Street College: Best Children's Books of the Year Selected as Outstanding by the Parent Council Selected for the Elementary School Library Collection

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