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Name: The dancing clock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Steve Metzger

Milo, a playful snow monkey from Central Park Zoo, is enchanted by the ticking of the park’s Delacorte Clock. When an opportunity arises for him to join a kaleidoscopic gathering of dancing creatures beneath its great face, Milo leaps right in. The clock’s uncanny music pulls him into a world of rhythm and joy, but as the midnight song fades, he realizes his newfound friends have wandered far from the zoo’s familiar paths. Now Milo must decide whether to stay in the glittering dance of the city or find his way back to the friends who await in the trees of Central Park.

First publish date: 2011

Genre: Children's Fiction/Picture Books

Authors: Steve Metzger

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