Ten Little- Known Facts About Hippopotamuses: And More Little-Known Facts and a Few Fibs About Other Animals - Hardcover

Little, Douglas; Francis, David; Rawlins, Donna

9780395739754: Ten Little- Known Facts About Hippopotamuses: And More Little-Known Facts and a Few Fibs About Other Animals

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395739756 ISBN 13: 9780395739754

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995

A visually exciting collection of facts, fables, and advice about animals both real and fantastic includes instructions for greeting lizards, attracting cormorants to the backyard, and distinguishing a spiny anteater from a pineapple.

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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
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