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Just One Bite By: Lola Schaefer
This fabulous, life-sized introduction to what animals eat, how they eat it, and how much they eat in a single bite is full of compelling facts and images. From the tiny sand-grain-sized bite of earth that the earthworm takes to the double-gatefold spread of a sperm whale sucking a whole giant squid down in just one bite, this book and the eleven animals in it are EXACTLY as large as life!
From a child's point of view, Just One Bite is a very simple book–the text is short, the illustrations are big and colorful–but it hides a tremendous amount of painstaking work on both the author and artist's part. Because all of the illustrations are life-size, Lola checked and re-checked the measurements of every detail with experts, and the artist fine-tuned the art meticulously to be sure that what the book offers children is true.
"Writing about nature is great fun!" says Lola. "Not only do I get to excite readers about the world around them, and hopefully ignite an interest that will take them into investigations of their own, but I learn so much about my topic. Read More...
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