Animagicals On The Go Unfold 12 Riddle Rhymes

Shields, Carol Diggory

ISBN 10: 1929766149 / ISBN 13: 9781929766147

Published by Handprint Books, Inc., 1999

About this Item

1st edition, 1st printing glossy hardcover with sharp tips and spine ends. 12 pp text is crisp and unmarked, without tears or soil. Tall book is 11.75" x 5.25" Who but this author and artist could see a rhinoceros in a train locomotive or a kangaroo in a baby carriage? With perfect accord this creative team from very different parts of the world see the possibility of animals in stripes, spots, dots, and rows. With quirky energy and electric imagination, a gifted poet and a brilliant artist cast a sharp eye on design and transportation in a new way with four different Animagicals titles. In each book, twelve poems pose riddles that are answered in twelve full-page, fold-out paintings of animals, each portrayed with humor, empathy, and sensitivity. For example: Here in "On the Go", authors compare a dragonfly with helicopter among other things. Animagicals engage the mind and delight the eye of both children and adults.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animagicals On The Go Unfold 12 Riddle Rhymes
• Publisher: Handprint Books, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929766149
• ISBN 13: 9781929766147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Junakovic, Svjetlan
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • PROSE & POETRY

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Synopsis

Who but this author and artist could see a rhinoceros in a train locomotive or a kangaroo in a baby carriage? With perfect accord this creative team from very different parts of the world see the possibility of animals in stripes, spots, dots, and rows. With quirky energy and electric imagination, a gifted poet and a brilliant artist cast a sharp eye on design and transportation in a new pair of Animagicals titles. In each book, twelve poems pose riddles that are answered in twelve full-page, fold-out paintings of animals, each portrayed with humor, empathy, and sensitivity. Whether it's comparing a dragonfly with helicopter in the On the Go, or describing the titles on a turtle's shell in Patterns, Animagicals engage the mind and delight the eye of both children and adults.

About the Author

Carol Diggory Shields is a poet, a humorist, and a librarian -- the perfect qualifications for reducing immense bodies of knowledge into a very few lines of extremely funny verse. Grateful teachers and students can direct fan letters to her in Salinas, Cal