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Ross, Tony

Rita's Rhino

24 pp. | Andersen | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4677-6315-8 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4677-6319-6
(4) K-3 Rita desperately wants a pet, and she isn't satisfied by her family-approved options of a flea and a tadpole. So the enterprising little girl heads to the zoo and adopts a rhinoceros, which proves to be as impractical as you'd imagine. The ending is abrupt and underwhelming, but Ross's signature light-handed watercolors with lots of subtle humor pull the story through.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

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