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A picture book about an animal living in a zoo who is looked as at slow and boring. Turns assumptions upside down. "Its originality jumps out of the covers" "Guardian". Readership level: 5 - 7 years.
Synopsis
Slow Loris was a slow loris and he was very slow. He lived in a zoo. The visitors thought him boring. The other animals did too. 'It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma ...twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other ...and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret.