Loris has very wild times at night where he truly comes alive even though he is super slow during the day!

Super Imaginative and fun! We never think about loris's being fast, but this book brings a new perspective. Super great illustrations and super fun story! ( )

47 months - Not too wordy and cute book. O really enjoyed it and asked to read it multiple times. ( )

Slow Loris is a slow loris. All the other animals at the zoo think Slow Loris is boring because he is
very
very
slow.
All the visitors to the zoo this Slow Loris is boring because his is
very
very
slow.
But Loris has a secret...
One night the other animals at the zoo learn Loris' secret and discover he isn't quite as boring as they thought.

One of my all-time favorite picture books! A short simple store paired with wonderful illustrations make this book perfect for picture book lovers of all ages.
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Found serendipitously on PJ shelf. The enormous slow loris eyes might creep some readers out, especially when Slow Loris moves FAST! ( )

Slow Loris - who is, well... a slow loris - liked to take things easy. It took him ten minutes to eat a satsuma, twenty minutes to cross the branch from one end of his enclosure to the other, and an hour to scratch his bottom, and the visitors to the zoo where he lived found him rather boring. So too did his fellow zoo animals, until the night they discovered his secret: that Slow Loris came alive at night...

English picture-book author/artist Alexis Deacon is someone whose books have been sincerely recommended to me a number of times, and recently having decided to explore his work, I thought I would start with this debut title. I enjoyed Slow Loris, although I found the artwork, which makes copious use of darker shades, and has a very earthy feeling to it, to be more interesting than the narrative. Although I can't say I was blown away by my first Deacon experience, I do plan to persevere (my friend was VERY enamored), and try another. Perhaps Beegu...? ( )