Animal Countdown

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Young readers can master counting down from 10 while learning about some of the world’s most endangered animals in author-artist Seeger’s marvelously illustrated lift-the-flap book.
—The Washington Post

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ISBN-13:	9780823448678
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	10/01/2024
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 8.79(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Laura Vaccaro Seeger is the author and illustrator of nearly two dozen acclaimed picture books, including Red and Why?, each the recipient of four starred reviews, and the popular Dog and Bear series, the first of which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Medal. She has been awarded a Caldecott Honor twice, for First the Egg and again for Green, and a Geisel Honor twice, for First the Egg and One Boy. She lives in Rockville Centre, New York.

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Editorial Reviews

Young readers can master counting down from 10 while learning about some of the world’s most endangered animals in author-artist Seeger’s marvelously illustrated lift-the-flap book.
—The Washington Post

Does Laura Vaccaro Seeger's inventiveness never cease? . . . This inventive picture book uses flaps to create a peekaboo-style game that can introduce the youngest readers to counting basics while raising awareness about vulnerable animals.
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)

Count on Seeger for powerful, accessible art for young readers.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Intriguing to both hold and behold.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Artistically elevated concept books.
—Horn Book

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★ 2024-07-04
Bold graphics with “I spy” die cuts deliver a compelling call to save endangered and threatened species.
Seeger is well established as a master of the concept book, and her latest offering lives up to this reputation for excellence. It reads like a mashup of her earlier titlesThe Hidden Alphabet (2003) andGreen (2012); she adopts a layout similar to the former and an ecological ethos like the latter while presenting the numbers 10 through one. The first spread shows the wordten on the verso in sans serif knockout type against a murky backdrop, while the facing page depicts the numeral 10 organically formed by the hazy background, revealed through a die-cut window in a brown gatefold page. When the gatefold is lifted vertically, the 10 appears as part of a reflective, watery setting where 10 sea otters huddle, adorably gazing out at readers. Ensuing spreads continue this pattern, showing nine elephants (the 9 formed by a pachyderm’s trunk), eight giraffes (the 8 appearing in markings on the animal’s fur), and so on. Seeger’s choice of a countdown provides a subtle message about the dwindling numbers of the portrayed animals, all of which, according to the backmatter, are “threatened or endangered, some critically.” Thumbnails with additional facts about the animals round out this artful, necessary picture book.
Count on Seeger for powerful, accessible art for young readers. (further reading)(Picture book. 2-6)

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