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Children love zoos, but they rarely think about the exhibits from the animals point of view. Ruffen: The Escape to Loch Ness presents this side of the story. When Ruffen gets a letter from Auntie Nessie with an invitation to visit her, he has no idea just how risky the journey will turn out to be. Ruffen is caught by humans and exhibited in a zoo. There he learns how unhappy all the other animals are in captivity. Fortunately, Ruffen is strong enough to get out of his cage and release the other animals as well. With the animal catchers on their heels, he and the other animals continue their escape to Loch Ness and Auntie Nessies house.
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Grade 1–3—In this second tale about the sea monster living in a "mysterious land," Ruffen receives an invitation from Aunt Nessie to visit her in Scotland. On the way, he's captured and placed in a zoo along with a sign reading, "Scaly, scary, savage, seldom-seen sea serpent." Before long, he uses his super strength to free himself and the other unhappy caged animals, and they evade their captors and flee to Loch Ness. There Aunt Nessie offers them asylum until Ruffen's friends can return to Africa. While the lengthy text, which censures zoos for their cruelty to animals, is lackluster, it is enlivened by humorous cartoon-style watercolor and ink illustrations. Penguins dive off a South Pole serpent's humped tail while palm trees grow out of a Tahiti monster's head. There are comical speech balloons, zany hairdos, and a bagpipe-playing Auntie. Her song, complete with musical notation, appears at the end of the book. However, Dashka Slater's The Sea Serpent and Me (Houghton, 2008) is a better choice to quench youngsters' thirst for stories about these underwater creatures.—Marianne Saccardi, formerly at Norwalk Community College, CT
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- PublisherMackenzie Smiles
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0981576125
- ISBN 13 9780981576121
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages72
- IllustratorHansen Thore
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