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"Stay close!" Her boys didn't see too well, just like all armadillos, and she didn't want to lose them, especially Bo, who was always wandering off.
About this book
Bo, an adventurous, near-sighted armadillo, leaves his mother and brothers to follow a girl heading to a rodeo wearing new red boots which Bo mistakes for another armadillo.
Themes & subjects
RodeosFictionArmadillosAnimalsMammalsJuvenile fiction
First published 1995Setting
Texas
About the author
Jan Brett
1 Dec 1949
With over forty one million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such place…
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