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Title:

Animals / Ingela P. Arrhenius.

Author:

Arrhenius, Ingela P., 1967- illustrator.

ISBN:

9780763692681

Personal Author:

Arrhenius, Ingela P., 1967- illustrator.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 46 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Abstract:

"Know someone who loves creatures? Animal lovers will fixate on this giant book presenting thirty-two big, bold images of friendly beasts. From a star of children's design in Sweden comes an exquisite array of animals rendered with whimsy and stylish splendor. Every over-sized page highlights a different specimen, from an adorable sheep to an elegant flamingo, from an endearing hippo to a silly-looking snake. Each animal's name appears in a different eye-catching type treatment, making for an attractive graphic keepsake sure to find a prominent place in nurseries and bookshelves everywhere"--Amazon.com.

Reading Level:

Ages 3-7.

Subject Term:

Animals -- Juvenile literature.

Animals.

Genre:

Picture books for children.

Format:

Books

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Summary

Know someone who loves creatures? Animal lovers will fixate on this giant book presenting thirty-two big, bold images of friendly beasts.

From a star of children's design in Sweden comes an exquisite array of animals rendered with whimsy and stylish splendor. Every oversize page highlights a different specimen, from an adorable sheep to an elegant flamingo, from an endearing hippo to a silly-looking snake. Each animal's name appears in a different eye-catching type treatment, making for an attractive graphic keepsake sure to find a prominent place in nurseries and bookshelves everywhere.

Author Notes

Ingela P. Arrhenius is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who has always loved to draw. She is the illustrator of The World's Best Noses, Ears, and Eyes by Helen Rundgren, and her images have adorned stickers, prints, plates, and wrapping paper. Ingela P. Arrhenius lives and works in Sweden.

Reviews (2)

Horn Book Review

This oversize book (approximately thirteen by eighteen inches) gives readers nothing beyond what's expected from the title. In no particular order, each page features a cartoony, stylized animal illustration accompanied by its name in a stylish font. While mostly a purposeless showcase of neat retro-style art, the huge format and simple design may make the book an enjoyable floor-read. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

A striking poster album of animals.This oversized Swedish import is 18 inches tall, hard for a small child to manage but ideal for sharing with young children seated in a preschool circle or at library storytime so that everyone can see the pages. It has a simple format: 32 animals are portrayed in flat, colorful, stylized illustrations, one per page, each with its name (the books only text) in a typeface chosen cutely to match the animals style or character. Thus zebra incorporates stripes, wolf is set in scary Halloween-ish block type, sheep is white and curvy, and the rabbits ears are mirrored in the cursive double letter b of its name. Sometimes the single name is hard to read, being highly stylized or artfully broken into two lines. Elegant endpapers duplicate the illustrations in a pastel checkerboard array. The design and appearance are precious and lovely to look at. Children will find this initially engaging, but the content is too bare-bones to satisfy by itself; its more a series of stylized posters than a book. This title will most likely be appreciated as an artifact in its own right or used as a talking point for discussion about these mostly familiar animals. (Picture book. 3-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.