Little Burro
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
In the vein of his popular picture books Grandfather Buffalo and Raccoon on His Own, Jim Arnosky’s Little Burro features a lovable new character who finds out that trying new things does not have to be scary.
Little Burro’s canyon has everything she needs—it’s breezy and cool on a hot day, and warm and cozy at night. One day, her band of burros decides to travel to the lake. She does not want to go, but finally follows when her mother calls out to her. When they arrive, Little Burro is surprised to find that the lake is just as nice as her canyon—and even more fun!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like many human children, Little Burro is a fierce creature of habit; her "favorite place" is actually the only place she's ever known: the rocky canyon hillside where she was born ("Breezy and cool in the middle of the hot desert day... and warm and cozy at night, when the sun had gone away"). When the burros decide to leave, the exceptionally adorable Little Burro is the very picture of "No": Arnosky (Shimmer and Splash) draws her sitting squarely on her bottom, her back turned to readers and her ears stuck out in defiance. But when Little Burro sees the destination a huge canyon lake and spends a day splashing around (the scenes bring to mind vintage vacation postcards in their coloring and comedy), she considers that maybe a burro can have two favorite places. Arnosky has taken readers to a wealth of landscapes and habitats over the years, but the Southwestern desert setting evoked in these pages is particularly well suited to his calm, straightforward prose and lightly romanticized naturalism. Ages 3 5.
