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Whiting, Sue

Platypus

32 pp. | Candlewick | February, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-8098-5 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Mark Jackson. A platypus--"one of the world's most puzzling animals"--leaves its burrow and searches for food. Lyrical main text and straightforward statements (in a different font) provide a good deal of information about this animal, one of only two monotremes (egg-laying mammals; echidna is the other). Mixed-media illustrations in greens and browns, atmospherically sketchlike, depict the Down Under habitat and creatures. Ind.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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