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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Fauna: Australia’s Most Curious Creatures
Author: MCCARTNEY TANIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2019
Imprint: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
*Shortlisted for the EPAA Educational Picture or Chapter Book 2020*
*Longlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020: Children's Publishing*
*Shortlisted for the 2020 Environment Award for Children's Literature: Non-fiction*
Age range 5+
Did you know that platypus have retractable webbing on their hind feet
to enable an easy transition from swimming to digging? That kangaroos can't
sweat and that the cassowary has no tongue?
In Fauna – Australia's Most
Curious Creatures, readers are constantly introduced to facts that delight,
amaze and induce sheer wonder at the clever design and adaptability of our
much-loved native fauna.
The information on each individual species is presented in small 'bites'
to hold the interest of younger readers, while the information taken in total
gives a comprehensive summary of each species, including breeding and feeding
habits, physical characteristics, habitat and other unique and quirky features.
Fauna also has a strong conservation message with an 'extinction roll call'
and a rating for the vulnerability of endangered species.
The stylised illustrations in Fauna
are lively, colourful and informative, highlighting facts that lend themselves
more to pictures than words e.g. the actual size of crocodile teeth, or the
mechanics of the echidna's beak. There is also humour in the illustrations is
that kangaroo with dark glasses actually from a different kind of mob?
Readers young and old will be delighted and informed by Fauna.
Teachers' notes available here
ISBN: 9780642279545
Dimension: 280mm X 235mm