Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "anything"
"Animal Alphabet Antics", "anything" and "Plants That Never Ever Bloom"
An eclectic collection this week.
Plants That Never Ever Bloom
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Ruth Heller
Although some of the plants in this book are not really considered plants, this is a wonderful look at plants that do not make flowers. It covers the fungi (mushrooms), mosses (lichens and liverwort) and gymnosperms (pines).
The author is a botanical illustrator so the illustrations are superb. There are other creatures included in them making them more like what you would see when you found these plants. My one regret is that the different ones are not named.
Anywhere
5 stars
Author: Rebecca Stead
Illustrator: Gracey Zhang
A little girl has just moved with her father to a new apartment. It's her birthday and the zero birthday of the apartment. She can have three wishes.
The illustrations are bare bone line drawings with color added. Even though they are so sparse, they work well with the text.
Animal Alphabet Antics
3 stars
Author/Illustrator: Pat Lampe
This is an illustrated book, not a picture book for young children.
For older readers the book is a fun look at paint colors, dances and fantastic poses of animals. It goes through the alphabet with a description somewhat alliterative and has an alliterative saying for each letter.
The biggest points of interests are the various colors (zaffir, teal, heliotrope etc.) and dances (gigue, elance, ye ye, volta etc.).
Plants That Never Ever Bloom
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Ruth Heller
Although some of the plants in this book are not really considered plants, this is a wonderful look at plants that do not make flowers. It covers the fungi (mushrooms), mosses (lichens and liverwort) and gymnosperms (pines).
The author is a botanical illustrator so the illustrations are superb. There are other creatures included in them making them more like what you would see when you found these plants. My one regret is that the different ones are not named.
Anywhere
5 stars
Author: Rebecca Stead
Illustrator: Gracey Zhang
A little girl has just moved with her father to a new apartment. It's her birthday and the zero birthday of the apartment. She can have three wishes.
The illustrations are bare bone line drawings with color added. Even though they are so sparse, they work well with the text.
Animal Alphabet Antics
3 stars
Author/Illustrator: Pat Lampe
This is an illustrated book, not a picture book for young children.
For older readers the book is a fun look at paint colors, dances and fantastic poses of animals. It goes through the alphabet with a description somewhat alliterative and has an alliterative saying for each letter.
The biggest points of interests are the various colors (zaffir, teal, heliotrope etc.) and dances (gigue, elance, ye ye, volta etc.).
