Stripes of All Types - Hardcover

Stockdale, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561456950 ISBN 13: 9781561456956

Publisher: Peachtree, 2013

Synopsis

A patterned parade of animals comes to life!
Bouncy, alliterative rhyme and gorgeous illustrations introduce readers to a wide range of striped animals. Susan Stockdale’s bright, detailed paintings help show the many reasons stripes are so often found in nature. An afterword provides more information about each featured animal and where it lives, and explains the role its stripes play. Readers can test their knowledge of animal stripes with a fun matching game at the end!

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Stockdale has written and illustrated a number of children’s picture books, including Stripes of All Types,Bring On the Birds, Fabulous Fishes, and Carry Me. Her books celebrate nature with exuberance and charm and have won awards from the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice, and the National Science Teachers Association. Stockdale lives in Maryland and speaks frequently at schools and conferences.

Susan Stockdale has written and illustrated a number of children’s picture books, including Stripes of All Types,Bring On the Birds, Fabulous Fishes, and Carry Me. Her books celebrate nature with exuberance and charm and have won awards from the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice, and the National Science Teachers Association. Stockdale lives in Maryland and speaks frequently at schools and conferences.

From Booklist:

While a skunk makes an unusual cover girl, a striking jacket illustration of a skunk invites readers to look inside this picture book on striped animals. Each page or double-page spread portrays one or more animals in an acrylic painting with clean lines; bold, simplified shapes; and some eye-catching color combinations. With lines such as “Propped on a log, / poised on a leaf. / Scaling a ridge / and scouting a reef,” short rhymed couplets string the illustrations together in a pleasant way but otherwise seem to have little purpose. The passage quoted above (spanning six pages) accompanies images of a frog, a butterfly, a skunk, and several fish. The animals are identified only in an appended section that reproduces the paintings in miniature and provides a bit of information related to each creature’s stripes. A challenging matching game is also appended. This attractive picture book, one of the few to focus on stripes in nature, offers images that a motivated teacher could use for discussion. Preschool-Grade 1. --Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachtree
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1561456950
• ISBN 13: 9781561456956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32