Animal Friends: A Global Celebration of Children and Animals (Global Fund for Children Books) - Hardcover

Ajmera, Maya; Ivanko, John D.; Global Fund For Children (Organization)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570915024 ISBN 13: 9781570915024

Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2002

Synopsis

No matter if your friends have feathers or fur or if they're big or small you need to love and take care of them. Smiling faces from fifteen countries around the world introduce adorable, and sometimes exotic, animal friends. Once again Maya Ajmera and John Ivanko team up to share their vision of teaching youngsters the value of diversity and aiding them to grow into productive, caring citizens of the world. Beautiful and often comical photographs of children and their animal friends from all over the world portray the innocence and joy of childhood and a child's easy appreciation and love of a favorite pet.

About this title

About the Author:

Maya Ajmera is the founder of The Global Fund for Children. She is the co-author of several Global Fund for Children books, including Faith, Global Babies, Children of the U.S.A., and Children from Australia to Zimbabwe.

John D. Ivanko is an award-winning photographer and author, writer, national speaker, and conservationist.He is the co-author (with Maya Ajmera) or photo contributor to nine Global Fund for Children books. With Maya Ajmera, he's co-authored the award-winning To Be a Kid, Be My Neighbor, To Be an Artist, Back to School, Animal Friends, and Come Out and Play.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-An unsuccessful board book. Each spread has a photograph of a child with an animal (duck, dog, giant turtle, goat, fish, etc.) and a phrase relating to it: "Some animals have feathers [a bird is depicted]. Some have scales [fish]." As stated in the subtitle, the youngsters represent many different cultures, but nowhere are their nationalities listed. Some will be obvious to adults; the photograph of the blond girl with a koala bear most likely represents Australia. However, others are more generic, such as a redheaded girl cuddling a kitten. While the children in the photos are engaging, there's not much else here to celebrate.
Olga R. Kuharets, Broward County Libraries, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1570915024
• ISBN 13: 9781570915024
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 18