Synopsis
Pete is a lazy tortoise and one day when Fox, Hare, Mouse and Badger take him along to the library, Pete simply lies down and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he’s been left behind and he is alone with a whole lot of books. But what is he supposed to do with all these book? Is he supposed to use them as building blocks? Is he supposed to sleep inside them?
Luckily, Pete is great at getting good ideas and when he finally thinks of opening a book, magical things start to happen.
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Reviews
"The Danish Minister of Cultur, Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, thinks that the children's book, Pete the Reading Tortoise, is a good example of how the library can turn children into curious readers. She thinks that it has big impact on the reading interest of children that they are introduced to books at a very young age." – (Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig)
Personal note from the author
I learnt to read very late and therefore only experienced what reading can do to you when I had become a grown-up. The story about Pete, who at first doesn’t know what books are made for, is therefore inspired by my own first experience of the library.
