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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

Person in trench coat (a very handsome vampire) with sword

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

Young woman sinks into murky water depths, her white dress billowing around her.

Grandma with a shotgun and boy with glowing cube and 'snake' necklace in front of the Archer Motel. From Wilson's Dragon tooth.

White horse under English saddle and rider prepare to jump fences.

Jungle orangutan trys to figure out how a young boy's speech works while Gorilla looks on -from Zoo at the end of the World, Eric Kahn Gale

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.

Hyphalosaurus_lingyuanensis swims through prehistoric rivers hunting its favorite prey.

Jim Byrnes plays Blues guitar

Crocodile swims through the swamps of Never Never land looking for Captain Hook. Alarm clock floats int he foreground-not yet swallowed.

Mole has tipped the boat over, spilled the picnic and is now in danger of drawing, luckily Rat is on his way tot he rescue.

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