Large as Life Animals in Beautiful Life-Size Paintings

by Joanna Cole, Kenneth Lilly (Illustrator)

Brief text and life-size illustrations present the characteristics of a variety of small diurnal and nocturnal animals

56 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 1990

About the author

Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Reviews

[wildct2003 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent paintings, ok text

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