This Is Not a Normal Animal Book
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Blobfish! Blobfish blobfish blobfish! This is a silly picture book about animals and collaboration—or lack thereof. But mostly blobfish.
This is a book about animals.
It is? I mean, it sort of is. It does have animals in it.
It’s a book about animals.
I hear you, but you have to admit it’s pretty strange. This is NOT a normal animal book.
You should read it.
At least we can agree on that.
This offbeat picture book asks hilarious questions about animals and art, who’s in charge of a picture book—the author or the illustrator—and really gets you thinking about…BLOBFISH!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Who's in charge of making a picture book: the illustrator or the writer? And what happens if they don't get along? Segal-Walters's debut begins as an ordinary introduction to different types of animals (mammals, birds, amphibians, etc.), but before long the illustrator has taken over. "If the hen hopped on lily pads, it would be a frog," says the narrator. "A frog?" asks the illustrator incredulously. "This is so confusing." With pencil shavings, crayons, erasers, scissors, tape, and construction paper, Biggs (the Tinyville Town series) uses in-progress drawings, used erasers, and taped-in images to show an illustrator struggling mightily to interpret the text as the narrator grows increasingly frustrated. The text turns demanding, and when the story requires a blobfish, the illustrator refuses to comply, proposing several alternatives ("Doesn't sunfish sound better than blobfish?") before offering a very close-up photograph of a blobfish. Even as the tale concludes, there's no end in sight to the quarrelling the banter spills over into a list of animal facts. A knowing and very funny behind-the-scenes look at the art and negotiation of collaboration. Ages 4 8. Author's)
