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Amanda Zimmerman

Diego, the Galápagos Giant Tortoise:
Saving a Species from Extinction

Author: Darcy Pattison

Pattison offers this dramatic story in accessible prose, using the appropriate scientific vocabulary in an understandable context.

This well-crafted success story of a species’ salvation will encourage budding environmentalists. — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Zimmerman’s realistic paintings invite readers into the times and places described, animating the tortoises and their saga.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Illustration

Recipient of the Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award from the California Reading Association

Digital Illustration: A boat of adventures paddle slowly, quietly through giant lily pads, past the ginormous crocodile.

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Diego, the Giant Galapagos Tortoise is finally back home. He chases a butterfly across the dry brittle grasses as two scientists look on.

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Diego the Tortoise pauses while munching on Opuntia Cactus tree. Four free range goats take the opportunity to steal his food. Dry and hot. Under brush and landscape fade into the distance.

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Jim Byrnes

Spot Illustrations

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