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Grandeur Nature (2009)

by Teruyuki Komiya(Favorite Author)

4.29 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

2878334841 (ISBN13: 9782878334845)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Circonflexe

review 1: Although there is no story, this book is interesting, informative, and fun. When I read this for storytime, I would ask the kids what the animals was, and then read the little blurb about the animal. I liked pointing out different things about each animal, like "Wow! This tiger's tooth is as big as my finger :) I didn't cover all the animals, I think I skipped about three or four after the capybara.
review 2: I sure wish I was still doing outreach, if only to booktalk this book! It's primarily comprised of life-size photographs of popular zoo animals, with fun facts (many regarding methods of defecating), as well basic info about this particular animal. The presentation is totally fun, with fold-out pages for some of the more massive animals. You can totally... more feel the fact that it originally came out in Japan. My only issues with it are that I wish they had a small scale photograph of the whole animal (there are outlines, but not photographs), and I worry about how the animals may have been treated to get the photographs. I remember Sy Montgomery's accounts of how her photographer-partner Nic Bishop handled the animals - she observed that many photographers' methods actually terrify the animal, so that the photographs depict animals in states of fight or flight. I'm certainly not an animal expert, but I wonder why a zoo animal is crying tears (the camel, to get rid of dust, the note says, but why is there dust in a photographer's studio?). It's hard to tell, but none of the animals look particularly relaxed. So I worry.But it's possible that my worries are unfounded, and the photographs really are stunning - you can see each animal's pores. And it will be an easy sell to kids. Awesome title.Although I always struggle with how to booktalk something like this. I feel like all I should have to do is hold it up. But that wouldn't take very long, and I feel like I should say SOMETHING when I do stuff like that. Any ideas, oh booktalkers out there? less

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