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Once Upon a Camel

Kathi Appelt

Illustrator: Eric Rohmann

Ages: 12+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy/Atheneum

ISBN: 978-1-5344-0643-8

Keywords: Middle East, Texas, story-telling

Zada, named for Scheherazade, an elderly camel in Texas 1910, protects two young kestrels by calming them with stories. Realistic greyscale oil paintings