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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. While Flora visits the zoo with her father, not only does she look at the animals, but some of them turn to look at her.
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When Flora goes to the zoo with her father, the animals watch her as carefully as she watches them: "She looked at the penguin/ and the penguin looked back [and] she looked at the monkey/ as its baby got a smack." The pattern continues: various zoo animals "look back," and others are described in matching rhymes (the snake slithers through a crack, the panther's coat is black, the elephant lives next to a yak, etc.). Despite Fox's (Koala Lou) trademark rhythms, the text is limited by her reliance on a list of animals instead of a developed plot, and by the use of a single rhyme. Except for the minimal surprise at the end, when Flora's father is the one who "smiles back" at her, the text?originally published in Australia in 1986?often seems either forced or predictable. On the other hand, Whitman's (The Night Is Like an Animal) playful, brightly blurred collage and watercolor illustrations are full of suggestive shadows. Flora's wide-brimmed purple hat provides a clear reference point as the artist changes the angles from which the animals are viewed. The freshness and whimsy of the art revive this otherwise tired title. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 2^-6. Flora goes to the zoo with her father to see the animals and finds that the animals like to see her too: "She looked at a tiger / and the tiger looked back." She visits a slithering snake, a monkey "as its baby got a smack," and other familiar zoo creatures--but only her daddy looked back at her and smiled. Fox's sing-songy text will have special appeal for the youngsters who enjoy learning the words by heart and reciting them along with the reader. The unusual collages, comprising paper painted with watercolor and torn into shapes, combine intense hues with softly torn edges for an effect that is both powerful and tender. Flora appears with a big smile and a big purple hat in each picture, but the center of attention is the animal looking back. Susan Dove Lempke
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- PublisherScholastic, Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0590299018
- ISBN 13 9780590299015
- BindingPaperback
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