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Eric Carle's Animals Animals
From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems and more. This celebration of the wonde...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
September 1st 1999
by Puffin
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Eric Carle's collage style is beloved by many, and the illustrations in this anthology are engaging and colorful. Indexing in the back assists readers with finding animals they are studying.
Poems collected by Laura Whipple feature a variety of sources and styles ranging from Shakespeare to Kipling to the Bible to Japanese haiku to American Indian poems and anonymous contributions.
This book has won numerous awards and is highly recommended by several sources we consult in building our reading li...more
Poems collected by Laura Whipple feature a variety of sources and styles ranging from Shakespeare to Kipling to the Bible to Japanese haiku to American Indian poems and anonymous contributions.
This book has won numerous awards and is highly recommended by several sources we consult in building our reading li...more
MY REVIEW:
Eric Carle is known for his unique illustrations and this book continues on with the bright colors and sometimes silly pictures. Animals Animals is full of just what you would expect - animals! Ocean-living animals, dessert-living animals, jungle-living animals, zoo-living animals, barn-living animals and more are all found in the 88 pages of this book. However, rather than have a traditional storyline to it, each page holds one more poems.
Now, if you are a poetry-loving person you wil...more
Eric Carle is known for his unique illustrations and this book continues on with the bright colors and sometimes silly pictures. Animals Animals is full of just what you would expect - animals! Ocean-living animals, dessert-living animals, jungle-living animals, zoo-living animals, barn-living animals and more are all found in the 88 pages of this book. However, rather than have a traditional storyline to it, each page holds one more poems.
Now, if you are a poetry-loving person you wil...more
I enjoyed reading the different poems about all the different animals! I think this book is very educational and would be a good book to have in my classroom. A few of my favorite poems were "every insect" and "long gone". I liked the one about the insects because I think it does a good job of providing a simple lesson on insects by explaining how "every insect (ant, fly, bee) is divided into three" one head, one chest, one stomach part." I enjoyed "long gone", which discusses dinosaurs because...more
I really enjoyed reading the different poems about different animals. I would read this book to my students because it helps teach kids about different animals, but doesn't do it by just giving a descriptive paragraph and does it by making a poem out of each animal. I enjoyed the poem about butterflies and loved how it described the butterfly as being "a caterpillar dressed up." It makes you think long and hard about the description being made about that animal and really keeps you interested in...more
Animals Animals has no plot, but has a collection of poems from many writers. Most of the poems are more about the feelings about the animals and less about the educational history of the animals.
The pictures are relatively low quality. The content is less valuable to young readers than the rhythm of poem-reading given for young children. Even still, there are some accurate tidbits of information given on the animals.
After, or perhaps before, reading this book, students can pick one of the anim...more
The pictures are relatively low quality. The content is less valuable to young readers than the rhythm of poem-reading given for young children. Even still, there are some accurate tidbits of information given on the animals.
After, or perhaps before, reading this book, students can pick one of the anim...more
My mom purchased this for my children and we just finished it. It's not Carle's typical picturebook - it's instead a longer book of poems. As a librarian, I am generally against harming a book in any way, but, man, I want to cut out some of these layouts and frame them! Both artwork adn poetry are beautiful! These are collected poems by varied authors and the only reason I docked a star is because I felt some of them might have been over the heads of the intended audience. Wonderful, wonderful g...more
The sixty-plus selections contained within this volume cover a huge range of animal topics from whales to bumble bees, camels to ants and includes the works of notable poets from Carl Sandburg to Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare to Ogden Nash - with a hearty helping of Japanese haiku and regional proverbs and sayings thrown in for good measure. Even without Eric Carle's distinctive and appealing art this is one neat collection!
*Animal index and first line index included in the back. Found it...more
*Animal index and first line index included in the back. Found it...more
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Eric Carle is known for his unique illustrations and once again in “Animals Animals” he is brilliant. He continues to use he bright colors and somewhat like collage style to exemplify each animal in more detail. Rather than having a traditional storyline to this book, each page holds a poem about a specific animal. Some of my favorites were the elephant, giraffe, and the electric eel. This would be a great book for a classroom to expose children to poetry because the poems are rhyming and fun at...more
Animals Animals by Eric Carle is an awesome book for so many reasons. First, it collaborates many small poems and quotes into one book. These words are accompanied by amazingly animated illustration that that brings the words to life. It is interesting and clever and it makes helps children be exposed to a new format of reading and analyzing literature.
Jun 04, 2010
Dolly
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their children
This book is filled with animal pictures created with Eric Carle's inimitable style. Accompanying the pictures are myriad poems that range from Japanese Haiku to Native American poems to the funny wit of Jack Prelutsky and Ogden Nash. We read this book in one sitting, but it's a bit long for younger children and probably best read in small bits.
Eric Carle works well as a board book. The artwork sets a gold standard for children's books. This particular book had a lively, warm and playful strip of color running along the bottom of the page which leads young reader to the next page.The bilingual version I read did a pretty nice job of introducing words with a sliding insert.
Collection of poems by various poets with classic Eric Carle illustrations. Though one might assume this is for young children based on the use of Eric Carle's illustrations, this is definitely for a larger audience, ranging from young readers to upper elementary. It is a rather large collection with many sophisticated poems.
Like all of Eric Carle's books, this one is expertly and beautifully illustrated. The pictures seem to come alive! And the poetry is wonderful! This book is probably best for younger children because they will like the silly animals and their descriptions.
I was introduced to this book during a methods course. A great teacher used this book to open her habitat unit. Each animal and their habitat was discussed. Eric Carle once again creates amazing illustrations and engages readers with an easy read.
Typical Eric Carle book when it comes to illustrations. This large book would be great to teach poetry with, or to teach about different kinds of animals. It would be great to link into science, as well.
May 10, 2012
Wendy Lawrence
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Love reading this book to my kids! I have a longer review on my blog, TheFamilyThatReadsTogether.com
Now, this book. I have to say is my least favorite of Eric Carle. It was lengthy and the kids didnt enjoy it at all. The only thing they liked about the book and I quote, "ooooo pretty colors." lol.
Love this book! I have a daughter who loves animals and poetry - found this at a zoo gift shop. Has had much more use and value in our home than any toy bought at a gift shop ever has.
Apr 10, 2013
Fjóla
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
poetry for kids
Shelves:
children-s-books
The pictures are great of course, just as you would expect, some look very familiar as we've seen this animals before in Eric Carle's other books. My son didn't care all that much about the poetry, but his favorite (and partly thanks to the illustrations) was "Quack!" Said the Billy Goat.
This book of compiled poems is great; along with Eric Carles illustrations to go with. The poems are all wonderful and I would recommend it for ages 5-9.
This book is not nearly as good as other Eric Carle books. The poems contained in this book are by other authors and is illustrated by Eric Carle.
i am hooked on the sliding panels - this is the coolest thing ever. except sometimes i have to grunt to make mommy slide the panel back.
Apr 30, 2010
Jennifer Ho
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
100-children-s-books
An assortment of poems written by Eric Carle himself. If the children love to read his books, this is another to add to the collection.
This book has great illustrations. It discusses many animals. It also includes poetry.
I love this and Dragons, Dragons and use them often for children's programming.
Collection of animal poems illustrated by Carle is unique and enjoyable.
Mother doesn't want a dog and behold the duck, loved the poems!
Enjoyed how it incorporated poetry from many great authors.
Lovely rhymes... great illustrations
it was interesting to read
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Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is a children's book author and illustrator, most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into over 30 languages. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 71 million copies of his books have sold around...more
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