Boldly decorative, full-color paintings and cheerful, informative texts introduce aspects of intriguing cultures. Accompanied by well thought-out maps, each book shows a display of facts designed to pique readers interests. Written in English.
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VICKI COBB is the author of more than eighty-five non-fiction books for children, including I Face the Wind a Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor book. After early careers as a laboratory researcher and science teacher, she became a full-time writer.
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BARBARA LAVALLEE is the illustrator of many books for young readers, including the bestselling Mama Do You Love Me? She lives in Alaska, and her vibrant watercolor illustrations are well-known for their depictions of a wide range of Alaskan life.
These inaugural titles of the Imagine Living Here series offer a colorful display of facts designed to pique readers' interests. In the first title, author and illustrator visit the Sonoran Desert in Arizona to show how various plants, animals and people have adapted to the heat and aridity. An explanation of how Phoenix was established offers historical facts alongside natural science. Cold shows how people and beasts survive ferocious cold, and includes discussions on the tundra and permafrost, and on how animals such as polar bears keep their wet fur from freezing. Oddly enough, there are more people depicted in this second work, although that may not indicate that one region is more populous than the other. One design element makes the work less accessible: the long, information-packed paragraphs look dense. Lavallee's buoyant watercolors are generally pleasant, but she depicts each face, desert cowboy's or Eskimo's, as half-light and half-dark. That seems like an artistic conceit, and may confuse issues of race rather than negate them. Ages 7-9.
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Condition: Fine in fine jacket. Lavallee, Barbara (illustrator). Signed later printing of this Alaskan installment of the Imagine Living Here series, inscribed by Alaskan illustrator Lavallee with accompanying thematic drawing. 10'' x 8.25''. Original robin's-egg-blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) dust jacket designed by Laurie McBarnette. Illustrated in color by Lavallee. Unpaginated. Inscribed by Lavallee on front free endpaper ("Warm Wishes from a Cold place / Barbara Lavallee / Fairbanks, Alaska") with her original pen drawing of a walrus. Minor wear to jacket. Seller Inventory # 48697
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