Animalia MIDI by Graeme Base
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(Hardcover - Reprint)
- Age Range: 4 to 8
- Pub. Date: September 1993
- 32pp
- Sales Rank: 57,937
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 1993
- Publisher: Abrams,Harry N Inc
- Format: Hardcover, 32pp
- Sales Rank: 57,937
- Age Range: 4 to 8
- ISBN-13: 9780810919396
- ISBN: 0810919397
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Sumptuously illustrated, this alphabet book is the perfect vehicle for Base's considerable talent. Each letter is pictured with an animal with a silly alliterative description. Other objects beginning with the letter are hidden in the beautifully detailed art, and readers are challenged to find as many as they can.
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An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library."
Publishers Weekly
Base has created an ABC book that goes far beyond a simple listing of items in alphabetical order. There are captions or headlines accompanying each letter's scene, such as ``Eight Enormous Elephants Expertly Eating Easter Eggs,'' or ``Two Tigers Taking the 10:20 Train to Timbuktu.'' Each picture is replete with an apparently random choice of objects that have in common (on every page but the one for the letter X) their first letters. This Australian import makes for a delightful visual feast, though it lacks a clear conceptual coherence or unity of action or meaning on every page. No matterreaders will have a fine time guessing at objects and searching for a small child who hides among the pages; and the meticulous artistry is far-reaching in its innovation, detail and humor. Base's monumental effort will not go unrewarded; if books could be honored for the sheer number of hours readers could pore over crammed pages, and for the inexhaustible supply of extra touches, this one surely would be a winner. All ages. (September)
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Animalia MIDIby Anonymous
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April 27, 2008: I bought this book while teaching a poetry unit to my 8th grade students. It's a perfect exmple of alliteration. I brought it home to read to my 2 year old and he loved it too! Not only are the main illustrations beautiful, but the background of each page is full of pictures that begin with that letter as well.
Animalia MIDIby Anonymous
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November 30, 2007: Animalia is an extremely detailed alphabet book. There are twenty six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some are two pages and some are only one. Each illustration includes an animal that corresponds with the letter the name starts with: like A is for Alligator, B is for Butterfly, C is for Cat and so on. Graeme?s word choice includes alliteration for each letter: like ?An Armoured Armadillo Avoiding An Angry Alligator,? ?Beautiful Blue Butterflies Basking By a Babbling Brook,? ?Crafty Crimson Cats Carefully Catching Crusty Crayfish,? and so on. It sounds very poetic. A child might not know what the words mean but might like the sounds of them. Each illustration also includes many small objects that start with the corresponding letter. Although the text doesn?t include the names of these objects, the reader can try to identify them. It?s interesting the author has a hidden picture of himself as a child in every illustration, it?s another challenge the reader can search for. I think this book is appropriate for all ages. Adults have just as much fun and just as much curiosity when identifying the hidden objects as children do. There is a coloring book version of Animalia and a television series to be released in 2007 called Animalia.
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