One Day On Our Blue Planet: In The Savannah

by Ella Bailey

Overview

From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious lion cub.

A new series of children's books focused on the way our young animal friends spend a day begins with a curious lion cub. Minding his mother and playing with his father, this little lion can't help chasing trouble and fun as he explores the little corner of that big blue planet he shares with us. Fans of animals, nature, and ecology will be thrilled by the adventures of our playful lion cub as they learn all about young animals and their homes. Ella Bailey's breathtaking illustrations present biologically and factually accurate depictions of our animal friends, and children will be able to see a bit of themselves in these young animals. All readers will be delighted to learn about the natural world and its inhabitants with this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909263567
Publisher:	Flying Eye Books Ltd.
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Series:	One Day On Our Blue Planet
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD740L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Ella Bailey is an illustrator and writer who focuses on creating charming characters and character-based illustrations, particularly for stories and children’s books. Bailey’s style is playful and engaging, resulting in stories that are charged with imagination and will undoubtedly captivate any young reader. She lives in Nottingham.

Editorial Reviews

"Brilliant illustrations that bring to life the vibrancy of the land. A great addition to be read aloud or independently to expand a child’s knowledge about nature."
—School Library Journal

"Listeners may be lulled to sleep by the gentle story, but they'll also want to be active participants in the find-that-animal game. A sweet ecosystem introduction for preschoolers, the first of a promising series."
—Kirkus Reviews

Fans of animals, nature, and ecology will be thrilled by the adventures of our playful lion cub as they learn all about young animals and their homes. [...] All readers will be delighted to learn about the natural world and its inhabitants with this book.
—Kidsreads

From the Publisher

2015-05-18
The African savanna, home of a tiny lion cub, is full of intriguing wildlife. The straightforward text of this appealing picture book follows a tiny lion cub for 24 hours as he plays, practices his hunting, and sleeps in his savanna world. It introduces his surroundings and his family—a pride that includes aunts, cousins, and a father with a "very, very loud" roar. At night, after the exhausted cub goes off to sleep, the lionesses hunt. While the text mentions that lions are meat eaters, and they're shown stalking zebra, the kill is only suggested, with the bare hint of a zebra hide behind some shrubbery in a nighttime scene. Listeners will be reassured to hear that the cub, for now, "only needs his mother's milk." The digitally created illustrations sometimes focus in on the cub and his family and sometimes move back to display scenes in which he's barely visible among his many unfamiliar neighbors. Day moves smoothly into night and back again. Images and names of most of the animals pictured are repeated on the endpapers. The animals (far more numerous than in reality) have appealing faces and yet remain thoroughly identifiable. Listeners may be lulled to sleep by the gentle story, but they'll also want to be active participants in the find-that-animal game. A sweet ecosystem introduction for preschoolers, the first of a promising series. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews