Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses (Big Words for Little Geniuses Series #2)

by Susan Patterson, James Patterson, Hsinping Pan (Illustrator)

Overview

Axolotes, chinchillas, and sugar gliders—oh my!

In this charmingly illustrated follow-up to their first bestselling collaboration, Big Words for Little Geniuses, Susan and James Patterson create a collection of the world's oddest and cutest animals that only little geniuses would know. Now available to younger readers in a giftable board book format—the perfect Easter basket stuffer!

From sloths to spoonbills and panda ants to pangolins, little geniuses will love learning about all of the unusual, adorable animals that live on this planet. More than 50 little-known flyers, swimmers, and crawlers are included in this book, whimsically illustrated by artist Hsinping Pan. Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses will remind you that nature contains many wonders—and these cute and curious creatures are no exception!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316486286
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	08/27/2018
Series:	Big Words for Little Geniuses Series , #2
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	101,253
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Susan Solie Patterson has dreamed of writing and art directing a children's book since she received her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The bestselling Big Words for Little Geniuses was her first book with her husband, James Patterson.

James Patterson is the world's bestselling author. He has donated more than one million books to students and soldiers, as well as millions of dollars to independent bookstores and school libraries. He lives in Florida with his family.

Editorial Reviews

2018-09-02

Tired of horsies, duckies, and kitties? Meet the roseate spoonbill, the Irrawaddy dolphin, the gerenuk, and 45 like specimens of exotic wildlife.

Continuing the vocabulary-building they began in Big Words for Little Geniuses (2017), the Pattersons focus here on creatures with names that beg to be sounded out and relished—from the "silly-looking aye-aye" to the "adorable" dumbo octopus, axolotl, and jerboa. The animals are grouped into the rough categories "Flyers," "Swimmers," and "Crawlers," and each is glossed with a few brief, crowd-pleasing facts or comments. The toucan "sounds like a cross between a pig and a frog!" The chinchilla "might pee on you if it gets scared. It also likes to eat its own poop." Pan supplies stylized portraits in illustrations that are all bright colors and blobby shapes, as cheery as Matisse paper collages. The beginning and ending are abrupt, the stylization sometimes goes a bit too far (even veteran naturalists will have trouble puzzling out the Sunda colugo), and some selections, such as the angel shark and the blue poison dart frog, don't seem especially "cuddly." Still this parade will give the next generation of Jane Goodalls and Roger Tory Petersons a leg up on some of the wild kingdom's more colorful (and sonorously named) residents.

Cute to occasionally cutesy—but not condescending. (Informational picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses:

"Continuing the vocabulary-building they began in Big Words for Little Geniuses (2017), the Pattersons focus here on creatures with names that beg to be sounded out and relished—from the "silly-looking aye-aye" to the "adorable" dumbo octopus, axolotl, and jerboa. Pan supplies stylized portraits in illustrations that are all bright colors and blobby shapes, as cheery as Matisse paper collages. ...This parade will give the next generation of Jane Goodalls and Roger Tory Petersons a leg up on some of the wild kingdom's more colorful (and sonorously named) residents."—Kirkus Reviews

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