About this item
Discover the friendship between a girl and her turtle - from both points of view - in this award-winning picture book from the author of How Do You Dance? and The Bear ReportAn ALA/ALSC Notable Childrens Book. Nia loves Alfie, her pet turtle. But hes not very soft, he doesnt do tricks, and hes pretty quiet. Sometimes she forgets hes even there. That is, until the night before her seventh birthday, when... Alfie disappears!. Where did he go? And why? Nia cant say... but Alfie can. This is his story.. From the award-winning author-illustrator of Fraidyzoo and The Bear Report comes a warm and funny tale that celebrates friendship, even when the friends see the relationship - and the world - very differently.
About the Author
Thyra Heder is a writer and illustrator of picture books for children, and a storyboard and concept artist for film, television, fashion and architecture. In 2015 she was a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow and awarded the San Francisco Film Society Hearst Grant along with director, Brent Green. Her four picture books, Fraidyzoo, The Bear Report and Alfie: (The Turtle That Disappeared) , and How Do You Dance? with Abrams Books for Young Readers have all received critical acclaim and international translation. In 2018, Alfie was awarded an E.B. White Read Aloud Honor by the Association of Booksellers for Children. She was born and raised in Cambridge, MA in a family of artists, and graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art Semiotics with a focus on film and video. She loves to collaborate with artists and writers of all kinds from her studio in Brooklyn, NY. She also loves walking around New York City and drawing strangers .
