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Ten little known facts about hippopotamuses: And more little known facts and a few fibs about other animals - Softcover
Wonderfully drawn animals, both real and fanciful, illustrate subjects that might have been dreamed up by Monty Python. There are instructions for greeting animals (including spider monkeys and lizards) and for attracting specific birds into your backyard (cormorants require a 120-foot-deep saltwater pool). There is detailed advice about how to distinguish a spiny anteater from a pineapple. Unusual information about animals is presented in a witty, visually enticing collection of facts, fables, and advice.
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About the Author:
Donna Rawlins is an illustrator, author, book designer, editor, and book packager. She lives in Australia.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 3-5-Little takes a fresh approach to presenting information about hippos and other animals, birds, and reptiles by stringing together diverse facts in an entertaining way. For example, he informs readers that "a hippopotamus can spend all day in the water doing nothing...without the aid of a Walkman" and notes that seagulls need "a mountain of household garbage liberally sprinkled with fish heads" as one of his zany suggestions for attracting birds in the backyard. The trivia is always cloaked in humor. Occasionally, the truth is hard to glean because of the offbeat format. But, for the most part, this is exactly the science carrot that librarians need to wave in front of reluctant nonfiction readers. The accomplished pen-and-ink and watercolor wash illustrations are wonderfully comic and colorful. All in all, this browsers' paradise is a charmer.
Amy Adler, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, OH
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Amy Adler, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, OH
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherAshton Scholastic
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1863880402
- ISBN 13 9781863880404
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages47
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