Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship
CRITICS HAVE SAID
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- This touching story of the power of a surprising friendship to mitigate the experience of loss is full of heart and hope.
Wendy Lukehart, School Library Journal - But children will nonetheless embrace the incident’s compelling anthropomorphic elements, thoughtfully framed by the authors, and will exclaim over the images of the winsome baby and its grizzled surrogate parent.
Jennifer Mattson, Booklist - Remarkable seems too tame a word for this memorable book about a friendship between two wild creatures.
Publishers Weekly
- This touching story of the power of a surprising friendship to mitigate the experience of loss is full of heart and hope.
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