Argus by Michelle Knudsen and illustrated by Andrea Wesson (Candlewick, February 2011) is about learning to be okay with being different, particularly when Sally has a very different kind of pet. From the first day when Sally got her assigned egg from her science teacher, she thought something was different. And when everyone else’s eggs hatched chicks, Sally’s hatched a dragon. Much as Sally tried, nothing could make Argus “normal.” It only took a tragedy for her to realize that she liked her pet that way.
This book is a fun way to learn the lesson that being different is just as good, even though it may be different.
