Camel caravan

God, I loved this book as a kid. It actually holds up pretty well, 30-some years later. The baby camel's travails are as nail-biting as ever; it's heartening to see the girl defeating sexist expectations in a non-didactic sort of way; and the main characters are pretty much all real people. Scenes

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of desert heat are an excellent way to while away a rainy cold afternoon in a Boston autumn.

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