Animals Everywhere: A Pop-Up Adventure

by Yvonne Deutch, Jonathan Woodward (Illustrator)

Overview

Do you dare peek into the Great White Shark's gnashing jaws? Can you catch the chittering, chattering Capuchin Monkey? Embark on a wild pop-up adventure filled with exciting surprises at every turn! From the depths of the ocean to the heart of the jungle, take an enthralling, close-up look at more than 100 animals as they swim, slink, fly, run, and roam.
 
Jonathan Woodward's gorgeous cut-paper art, with four exploding pop-ups, thrillingly depicts the world's most intriguing creatures, while Yvonne Deutch's fun, poetic story takes young readers on an unforgettable journey. Organized by habitat, this is a stand-out introduction to the animal world for ages four and up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454908128
Publisher:	Sterling Children's Books
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Pages:	22
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Yvonne Deutch is a writer, poet, and editor of children's books and poetry anthologies. She lives in London.
 
Jonathan Woodward is known for his unique cut-paper collage style using recycled magazines. His awards include the prestigious BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011 and 2012, Commended Finalist. He lives in Nottingham, England.

Editorial Reviews

2013-09-25
A populous but indigestible flurry of paper-collage animal portraits, not exactly enhanced by inept rhymed commentary and pop-ups. The survey begins with a spread of sharks headlined by a gaping 3-D great white, oddly placed over a round die-cut hole so that it looks hollow and a school of tuna on the next spread is visible down its gullet. The album proceeds to take viewers from ocean deeps to the jungle, a grassland and on to the South Pole in arrays that alternate between groupings of related creatures and representative general menageries. The animals are created with colorfully contrasting pieces of cut paper but look flatter and less realistic than Steve Jenkins' similarly constructed images. They are identified on each crowded spread but aren't shown to scale and mingle without reference to home continents. Though the great white does flash an anatomically correct five rows of teeth, the four pop-ups, particularly an emperor penguin with an angular head that looks more like a pterodactyl's, aren't realistic. The rhymes range from forced ("tenpins/penguins") to meaningless ("Eyes peep down like mischievous flunkeys, / a chittering, chattering…troop of monkeys") and include a reference to a "lounge of lizards." Deutch offers a closing page of prose facts about selected animals that includes a confusingly punctuated reference to the emperor's " ‘brood' pouch." A low-cal alternative to the more nutritious likes of Jinny Johnson's Atlas of Animals or Jenkins' magisterial Animal Book (both 2013). (Informational pop-up. 6-8)

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