Aska's Sea Creatures - Hardcover

Day, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385321074 ISBN 13: 9780385321075

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1994

Synopsis

Poems by a well-known Canadian poet and mystical, spectacular paintings by an award-winning artist capture the lives and movements of creatures that live in the world's oceans.

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From the Publisher:

The exotic underwater world is brought to life, vividly and impeccably recreated by brush and complimented by lyrical verses.

Full-colour illustrations

From Publishers Weekly:

As its title indicates, this collection of poems serves primarily as a showcase for Aska's (Aska's Animals; Aska's Birds) stylish artwork. His electrically colored, often impressionistic paintings occupy three-fourths of each spread, while Day's (The Emperor's Panda) three- and four-line verses, set against the remaining white space, address such denizens of the deep as Stingray, Angler Fish, Coral and Octopus. Mostly non-rhyming, the poetry, too, is more impressionistic than literal; though often playfully evocative, the haiku-like structure and imagery may be too sophisticated for some youngsters. In "Humpback Whale," for example, "Titanic opera singer; a diva of the deep;/ Your voice resounds through the fishy world./ Your notes reach down into the depths and/ up again to the heavens." While some of Aska's paintings offer brilliant undersea panoramas-a swarm of vivid yellow butterfly fish, an almost fluorescent dolphin school, "Leaping, laughing and chattering"-some are stylized representations that might well prove more confusing than informative. All ages.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385321074
• ISBN 13: 9780385321075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1