Discover the friendship between a girl and her turtle--from both points of view--in Thyra Heder's Alfie, anaward-winning picture book that celebrates the relationship between a child and a pet. An ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Book Nia loves Alfie, her pet turtle. But he's not very soft, he doesn't do tricks, and he's pretty quiet. Sometimes she forgets he's even there--that is, until the night before her seventh...