Time to catch up on reviewing books I actually read a few months ago!I haven't read this since I was a child. I didn't get much out of it then. It's a beautiful book, but seemed frighteningly somber to me. Also, I was (and kind of still am) all about dialogue, and the main character, Karana, spends ...
The watercolor paintings were really remarkable. The transparent tan colors used as the background for each page (see the end-page notes) were perfect for putting me in that 'tawny' veldt that matches the lion's fur, and also happens to be a main color of the hills in California where he landed late...
Who needs to travel when there are books like Ted and Betsy Lewin's Puffling Patrol? This time the Lewins take us to a group of islands off the coast of Iceland where thousands of puffins spend their summer raising their chicks. In August the chicks, called pufflings, must go to sea and the children...
Wonderful illustrated account of the trip the author and illustrator made to Iceland to see children of the Puffling Patrol engaged in a unique annual rescue of newly hatched puffin chicks.
The Royal Elephants of India - Ted Lewin...
The Silent Bells - William MacKellar, Te...
Working Bibliography of Owls of the Worl...
Listen to the Crows - Laurence Pringle, ...
Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold (Zephyr ...
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