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Riggs, Kate

Tortoises

24 pp. | Creative Education | January, 2014 | Library ISBN 978-1-60818-350-0 $18.95
(4) K-3 Amazing Animals series. Vivid photographs providing up-close views of the daily lives and habits of tortoises are the highlights of this slim volume. Minimal text touches on habitat, appearance, diet, and offspring, and supplies a folk-story answer to the question "How can a slow tortoise win a race?" ("A man named Aesop (EE-sop) told a story about this.") Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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