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Eric Carle's Animals Animals

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Eric Carle's Animals Animals is a beautifully illustrated children's book that explores the vibrant world of animals. Through engaging poetry and whimsical art, it introduces young readers to various creatures from all over the globe, highlighting their unique characteristics and habitats. The book provides an enchanting journey into the animal kingdom, fostering a love for nature and reading.
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You might enjoy this colourful and engaging children's book if you love exploring the animal kingdom through captivating illustrations. It brings together a delightful mix of vibrant artwork and intriguing animal facts, making it a fun and educational read for young nature enthusiasts.

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Eric Carle's Animals Animals

Brilliant collage designs bring to life animal poems by world-renowned authors such as William Shakespeare and Rudyard Kipling.

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From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colourful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems, and more.

This celebration of the wonder and variety of earth's animals is joyous...a book to be shared (Booklist, starred review).

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Eric Carle's Animals Animals features vibrant collage illustrations by Eric Carle that enliven a wide range of animal-themed poems from various sources, including Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and more diverse selections. Described as a joyous celebration of animal diversity, the book is recommended for sharing with its colourful artistic interpretations and rich poetic array praised by reviewers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780698118553

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Eric Carle
  • Compiled by Laura Whipple
  • Illustrated by Eric Carle

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 227.0mm

Height: 286.0mm

Weight: 437g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (www.carlemuseum.org) in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world,underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. www.eric-carle.com

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