Snake is elegant, calm and a little self-centered, while Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Through a series of small (and not so small) adventures, the two friends bicker, compete with each other, go into business and finally, end up as lifelong friends.

Related: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), New Zealand, Primary (ages 6-9)

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• ISBN: 9781933605838
• Author: Cowley, Joy
• Illustrator: Bishop, Gavin
• Published: 2008, Kane/Miller Book Pub
• Themes: Adventure, appreciating differences, competition, desert, Friend, lizard, snake
• Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), New Zealand, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 104