| The Foolish Tortoise Reissue Edition Contributor(s): Buckley, Richard (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1416979166 ISBN-13: 9781416979166 Publisher: Little Simon OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Board Books - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Last published in 1998, this classic story, whimsically illustrated by Carle, returns with a fresh new cover design. Children and adults alike are sure to enjoy this jubilant tale of a tortoise on a journey of self-discovery. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Turtles - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - General - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Dewey: E |
| Lexile Measure: 540 |
| Series: World of Eric Carle |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.55 lbs) 24 pages |
| Themes: - Catalog Heading - Board Books - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 143285 Reading Level: 2.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Last published in 1998, this classic story whimsically illustrated by Eric Carle returns with a fresh new cover design. Children and adults alike will enjoy this jubilant tale of a tortoise on a journey of self-discovery |
Contributor Bio(s): Carle, Eric: - Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including The Tiny Seed, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.Buckley, Richard: - Richard Buckley is a much-traveled English writer of both prose and poetry. He has lived in New York, Paris, and London, but his present home is in Cheltenham, England, where he has lived for the past thirty years, bringing up two sons with his wife (and muse) Elfie. His books for children include The Dutiful Penguin, The Foolish Tortoise (with Eric Carle), The Greedy Python (with Eric Carle), and The Bird Who Couldn't Fly (with Alex Williams). |