A Mama for Owen by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by John Butler [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
A beautifully illustrated, lullaby-like retelling of baby hippo Owen, who lost his entire family pod in the great tsunami of December 2004, and chose a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee, meaning “old man” in Swahili, to...