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40 pp.
| Peter Pauper
| October, 2018
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TradeISBN 978-1-4413-2843-4$16.99
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K-3
While reading this quietly stunning nature book, readers are encouraged to slow down and observe the minute details of the natural world from the viewpoint of a spider. The spider's black legs make a stark contrast to the meticulously detailed seeds, thorns, bugs, feathers, and leaves (all identified by name) that grace the pages, culminating finally with the spider herself in her intricate web.
48 pp.
| Eerdmans
| February, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5488-9$19.00
(3)
K-3
In an oversize format, Simler depicts a variety of blue animals, birds, and plants that appear in the "blue hour": the time between day and night. Poetic text pairs with dramatic blue-dominated art for an impressively gorgeous catalog. Thirty-two shades of blue are identified on the front endpapers; a concluding endpaper map of the world roughly places the animals in their native locations.
48 pp.
| Eerdmans
| August, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5492-6$18.00
(3)
PS
Dramatic stylized illustrations of birds and their feathers, rendered with crisp lines and fine textures, create a visually stunning catalog. The oversize French import is also a counting book (the number of feathers increases steadily, although irregularly); a seek-and-find (there's part of a black cat hidden on each spread); and a simple story as the end reveals the cat, Plume, has been collecting feathers.