Victoria Baker
Goodreads Author
Member Since
May 2012
|
The Little Girl and the Tortoise
|
|
|
The Little Girl and the Tortoise
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Victoria’s Recent Updates
|
"A fresh and clever twist on the tortoise-and-hare fable, with a determined little girl journeying through jungle, plains, and river to help her slow friend win a race. The real wisdom comes from the elephant's quiet question — not what can't the tort"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Victoria
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This is *so* freaking cute, I can't even. The little diagrams and the solution to the problem and the way the monsters were drawn, it was all so clever and adorable, I really enjoyed it. Definitely good for young kids who need to know they've got a s ...more | |
|
Victoria
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| It was cute! The illustrations helped capture the magic of the original tale and it was told in a family friendly way. Though there were some tonal whiplashes for me when the narrative was talking about the whale crushing the boat and the whale was s ...more | |
|
Victoria
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This is absolutely adorable. The illustrations are cute, the story is cute and it made me smile the whole time. I really liked it. | |
|
Victoria
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| This book took a minute to grow on me. I was reading it and thinking that it had a lot of words, but the pictures were beautiful and charming and the more I read, the more I enjoyed the prose. It was just so freaking cute. The story is simple but fol ...more | |
|
Victoria
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| ADHD can be a difficult thing to love sometimes. I've had to watch a lot of people struggle with a lot of anger and self-loathing because their brains work differently than other people's do. And I do think that this book takes a rather rosy shine to ...more | |
|
Victoria
finished reading
|
|
|
"This is a brilliant, deeply needed twist on a classic fable that deserves a spot on every family bookshelf. Instead of relying on the rabbit making a mistake, the story focuses entirely on the tortoise finding his own unique value and winning on his "
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Victoria
finished reading
|
|
|
Victoria
wants to read
|
|


















