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Old Turtle
by Douglas Wood

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Douglas Wood
Scholastic
Hardcover, Autogr.1st Ed.
9 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
52
0-439-32109-3
Oct., 2003
New
8 and up
1
$25.00
Recognitions:
  • International Reading Association
    Children's Book Award
  • American Booksellers
    Book of the Year
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Excerpt from Old Turtle and the Broken Truth

"Once, in a beautiful, faraway land...that was, somehow, not so very far... a land where every stone was a teacher and every breeze a language; where every lake was a mirror and every tree a ladder to the stars,.."


"Old turtle helps the Little Girl to hear again the language of breezes...and passes on the precious piece of wisdom that will mend the people's broken truth."--The Publisher

This copy of Old Turtle and the Broken Truth is a Collectible, First Edition, First Printing, Autographed Copy (Signed on the title page by water color artist, Jon J. Muth.)

Review

...an eloquent parable for adults and children, deceptively simple, about reverence for the earth and all its creatures--including humankind."
---The Los Angeles Times

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