num_pages: 48
description: Based on the true story of an eighteenth-century rhino who toured Europe and started a sensation! In detailed illustrations McCully shows Clara being introduced to Louis XV of France Frederick the Great of Germany and others willing to pay for a chance to stroke her soft lip. Her owner a Dutch sea captain keeps Clara fed (she eats 100 pounds of hay and 30 loaves of bread a day!) and watered (she drinks 14 buckets of water and beer) and takes loving care of her until her death 17 years later.
language: None
title: Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone . . . While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a
publisher: Schwartz & Wade