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Cecil the Pet Glacier
2012
First Published
3.81
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages

In a starred review Publishers Weekly "It’s an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within—and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that." Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier. How Cecil, as the ice pet is named, proves himself to Ruby—risking his own meltdown—is a story sure to thrill and delight young readers.

Avg Rating
3.81
Number of Ratings
450
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
34%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
3%
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Author

Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey
Author · 9 books
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry—Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, and one children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
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