Animal Action ABC - Hardcover

Pandell, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525454861 ISBN 13: 9780525454861

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 1996

Synopsis

An innovative alphabet book invites small children to imitate twenty-six different animals as they box, leap, and stretch their way from A to Z, and each spread features an animal and children in imitating poses.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Pandell the author of several award winning nature books for both children and adults. She has traveled extensively in order to observe wildlife in habitats as varied as Alaska and Asia. She now observes wildlife in Schenectady, New York, where she l

From Kirkus Reviews:

The alphabet in this book functions more as a framework than it does a primer in letters. It pairs verbs--arch, balance, charge, drink--with an animal engaged in that activity and a poem describing it. Brightly clad children superimposed against a backdrop of wildlife photographs imitate the animal actions. The wildlife and child photography is visually stimulating in concert, but the (just barely) rhyming text rarely extends the images and more often lacks the alacrity needed for a harmonious collaboration. There's no ``L is for leopard'' here; the sleepy leopard may be found under N, for Nap. A short glossary of each animal's habitat and behavior may interest older readers who will not care about learning letters or simulating the actions. For a stronger illustration of the same concept, see Jean Marzollo and Jerry Pinkney's Pretend You're a Cat (1990), which stretches minds as well as bodies. (Picture book. 3-6) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0525454861
• ISBN 13: 9780525454861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 44
• Illustrator: Sheehan Nancy