Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
By (Author) Roberta Edwards
Illustrated by Carol Schwartz
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin Young Readers
10th May 2007
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Physical world
Childrens / Teenage: General interest
Educational: First / native language: Readers and reading schemes
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats
599.635
Winner of Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award (Beginning Nonfiction) 2008
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 5mm
88g
Description
After the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, a little hippo named Owen was discovered orphaned and alone, far from home. Come read the true and heartwarming story of the animal sanctuary that provided a new home for Owen, where he found an unlikely best friend in a 130- year-old tortoise named Mzee.
Author Bio
Roberta Edwards lives in New York, New York. Ken Call lives in Northbrook, Illinois.
