Prudence Wants a Pet
Roaring Brook Press
Available: 06/21/11
11.13 x 6.8 · 32 pages
Ages 4-7 years
9781596434684
CDN $20.50
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Prudence wants a pet. Desperately.
No," says Dad, "pets cost too much to keep."
"No," says Mom, "pets make noise."
But Prudence is determined. She finds her own pet. It is a. . . branch. But Branch isn't exactly the pet of her dreams, and neither are Twig, Mr. Round (a car tire), or her baby brother Milo.
Poor Prudence. Will she ever find the perfect pet?
Cathleen Daly is a writer and performance artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of the novel Flirt Club, and the picture book Prudence Wants a Pet, both published by Roaring Brook Press.
Her second picture book with Roaring Brook Press, Emily's Blue Period, was the runner up for the 2015-2016 Texas Bluebonnet Award, was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice (University of Wisconsin).
Stephen Michael King is an award-winning author and illustrator with many books to his credit, including Leaf, published by Roaring Brook Press, and he has been nominated seven times for the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Stephen lives in a mud brick house on an island off the east coast of Australia with his wife, two children, and a menagerie of animals.
