Steve goes to Carnival

Steve the gorilla, who lives at the city zoo in Rio de Janeiro, escapes one night to look for his friend Antonio the zookeeper, and gets caught up in the merriment of Carnival.

Main Author:	Button, Joshua (Author)
Other Authors:	Wells, Robyn (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2019]
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Gorilla > Juvenile fiction. Zoos > Juvenile fiction. Carnival > Juvenile fiction. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	Steve the gorilla, who lives at the city zoo in Rio de Janeiro, escapes one night to look for his friend Antonio the zookeeper, and gets caught up in the merriment of Carnival.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
ISBN:	9781536200348 1536200344
Author Notes:	Joshua Button is descended from the Walmajarri people of the East Kimberley, Australia. As a young boy, he spent many weekends fishing and crabbing in the mangroves with his family, experiences that led to his first picture book, Joshua and the Two Crabs . He works part-time as an Aboriginal teaching assistant in Broome, Australia. Robyn Wells has a degree in fine arts and is passionate about enabling young people to express themselves through language and art. She has lived in the Kimberley, Australia, for many years.

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