Italy Quotes

In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother’s transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.

“Claudia friends called Miranda and Punka ‘giant cats.’ ‘Why, they were colosal!’ they exclaimed. Punka, though more than a year younger, was even larger than her mother.”

“Once last winter, after a terrible and unusual snowstorm, Miranda had chased sixteen dogs off their street. They were trotting along happily through the deep and snowy ravine in the middle of the street where men and animals had worn a path.”