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My Beak, Your Beak
Hardback
Main Details
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My Beak, Your Beak
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Melanie Walsh
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:32 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 274,Width 228 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780385602914
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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| Audience | | Children / Juvenile | | Primary & Secondary Education | |
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| Illustrations |
illustrations, (some colour )
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Random House Children's Books
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| Imprint |
Doubleday Children's Books
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| Publication Date |
1 June 2002 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Animals can be very different from one another, but there are some ways in which they are just the same. Like penguins who live in the snowy South Pole and robins who live in the garden - they both catch their food in their pointy beaks! A fun and educational picture book with bold and vibrant illustrations ideal for the very young. Companion to My Nose, Your Nose.
Author Biography
After studying at Harrow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, Melanie worked as a textile designer before writing and illustrating children's books. She is widely published and has won the Parents Choice Gold Award in the Us for Do Pigs Have Stripes? (Heinemann). Melanie lives in London and has two young twin sons.
ReviewsKirkus Review US:Walsh (Big and Little, not reviewed, etc) continues to delight and inform toddlers with these two celebrations of unity in diversity. "Dachshunds are long with little legs. Dalmatians are tall and spotty. But . . . they both love chasing sticks!" In characteristically large, very simple paintings, these dogs, and four other animal pairs, pose playfully against bright monochromatic backgrounds in the first volume. Similarly depicted, a quartet of light- and dark-skinned children graces My Nose, Your Nose (0-618-15077-3). "Davy's skin is brown. Agnes's skin is white. But . . . they both have cheeky pink tongues!" And like their mates Kit and Arthur-and everyone else-they close their eyes when they go to sleep. As there's no corresponding sense of closure in My Beak, Your Beak, the two titles form a seamless whole, making this more like one work for the price of two-still, the theme is certainly important enough to justify the extra expense. (Picture book. 2-4) (Kirkus Reviews)
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