My Wild Family
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Sometimes there's more to family than meets the eye....
Animals of all kinds take center stage in this unique exploration of a very unusual family. An older brother is strong and respected, just like an elephant. A mother is stately and beautiful, but she prefers not to stand out—a tall feat for a giraffe! How are animals like humans, and humans like animals? Readers of all ages will delight in Laurent Moreau's richly rendered, thought-provoking illustrations, and then they will entertain perhaps the most wildly illuminating question of all: What makes you special? Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.
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Originally published in France, this book introduces "a very special family." A human girl surrounded by a lion, elephant, owl, and other creatures on the cover describes her relatives without mentioning the obvious: each is a different animal. In a classroom, a bird perching on a chair is identified as "My little brother. Flighty and a dreamer, his head is often in the clouds." On a city sidewalk, a giraffe strides among pedestrians: "My mother. Tall and beautiful, everyone notices her." The girl's "perfectly primped" aunt is a crowned crane, her cousins are monkeys scaling an electrical substation, and one of her friends is a cheetah dashing through a park. The closing image pictures the girl in a striped shirt, with a zebra's ears and tail, emphasizing her own inner wildness. Working in linocutlike layers of brick red, ochre, blue, and gray, Moreau blends urban scenery with stylized patterns and organic leafy shapes. As his menagerie mingles casually with people on a beach, tram, and playground, he playfully obscures their true identities and implies how human animals especially children think about nonhuman ones. Ages 3 5.
