Imagine You Are a Crocodile - Hardcover
"Wallace and Bostock... do an exceptional job of suggesting how the world appears through crocodilian eyes. A terrific introduction to crocodiles, as well as swamps and predation." --Booklist, starred review
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Karen Wallace is an award-winning author of children’s books for all ages. The first in her series for younger readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006. The Goose Pimple Bay Sagas was a World Book Day recommended read in 2008 and Li Fu’s Great Aim was chosen for the 2008 Boys into Books promotion.
Ages 3^-6. As the title suggests, this picture book invites the child to imagine life as a crocodile, a particular mother crocodile who lies perfectly still in swamp water, catches a heron for a meal, and defends her babies from snakes and other predators. In Think of an Eel (1993), Wallace and Bostock introduced young children to eels through well-conceived words and pictures. Here they do an exceptional job of suggesting how the world appears through crocodilian eyes and explaining why these ancient reptiles do the things they do. The text is as rhythmic and deliberately slow as a crocodile's lumbering walk: "The crocodile hangs in the water / like a rotten log. Her two yellow eyes / seem to float on the scum." Never was scum so beautiful as in Bostock's watercolor illustrations of this swampy habitat. Mottled greens and tans predominate in the artwork, which features wonderfully effective, large-scale pictures on double-page spreads. Fine for reading aloud, this picture book serves as a terrific introduction to crocodiles, as well as swamps and predation. Carolyn Phelan
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- PublisherHenry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0805046372
- ISBN 13 9780805046373
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorBostock Mike
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IMAGINE YOU ARE A CROCODILE
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Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
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ISBN 13: 9780805046373
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