In the “treats” category today – TRUMAN has been selected as a Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner! Lucy Ruth Cummins and I are so VERY honored. No celebratory donuts handy. But then again, all that Halloween candy is just sitting there … hmmmmm.
Here’s what they had to say:
“Truman is a very small tortoise, the size of a small doughnut. He lives with his Sarah and keeps her company when she quietly plays. Sarah keeps him in an aquarium in a window where can watch and hear the traffic far below. One day, he is given extra green beans and observes Sarah getting on the number eleven bus and leaving. When she doesn’t return quickly, Truman waits patiently. And he waits and he waits. And then, he climbs out of his aquarium to find her. The world turns out to be bigger and more ominous than Truman anticipated.
With soft black outlines and a flat cartoon style, Truman’s story of bravery and devotion is interspersed with numbered objects to be counted. It is well paced and perfectly suited for the very young and tender-hearted.”
