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Maybe a fox by kathi appelt5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Appelt’s voice and pacing demonstrate her fine storytelling skills. Readers will revel in both the vivid stories of Zada’s past and the rich vocabulary of Texas desert life. A delight to the senses, Zada’s stories are a descriptive wonder, featuring roiling dust, howling winds, fresh figs, and cool water, bolstering the emotions shown in Rohmann’s grayscale oil paintings. Army in 1856, ending up in Texas (events inspired by actual history). The fledglings learn that Zada was raised by a Turkish pasha and gifted with eight other prized racing camels to the U.S. The evocative language is spellbinding as tales from Zada’s life calm the baby birds-and capture the interest of readers as well. Zada hopes to get the chicks to the safe meeting place chosen by their parents just before a dust devil snatched them away. The threesome shelter in an empty mountain lion’s cave, waiting for safety. It’s 1910, and she has charge of Wims and Beulah, two baby kestrels whose parents have vanished in a vicious dust storm. Like her namesake Scheherazade, elderly camel Zada has many stories to tell from her adventurous life. How does one entertain two baby kestrels in the middle of a West Texas dust storm? With camel stories, of course. ![]()
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