Hi, Harry!: The Moving Story of How One Slow Tortoise Slowly Made a Friend
PreSchool-The creators of Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? (Candlewick, 1992) have teamed up again for another gentle and endearing story. Harry the tortoise wants to play, but Buster Rabbit, Stan Badger, and Sarah Mouse just speed past his friendly hellos. After attempting to engage a mushroom, a rock, and a pond, Harry is pleasantly surprised when Sam Snail joins him. The two play Slow Races, Heads In and Heads Out, and Turn Around and Turn Around Again, all at just the right speed. "Then they sat by the pool and they talked and talked about being a tortoise, and being a snail,- and how good it is to be slow. And how nice, how very very very nice, it is to be- friends." Firth's pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations aptly depict all of the characters, especially the friendly personality of the dusty brown tortoise with his jaunty red baseball cap. The use of repetition within this simple text will engage listeners who will be touched by this tender story of friendship.Piper L. Nyman, Fairfield/Suisun Community Library, Fairfield, CACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.