Featuring bold and beautiful animal portraits of birds, mammals and reptiles. It is the perfect book for young animal lovers.
Children will love exploring a diverse range of 18 Australian animals – the artwork collages alone are worth spending time with in this book.
Each page highlights an animal with key facts, a map of where they live, their scientific name, what their young are called and what a group of these animals are called – that is if they have a name?
Did you know that while Emu’s can run up to 50km an hour, but they cannot walk backwards?
Or that the pouch of a Bilby faces backwards to prevent dirt entering. Numbats eat up to 20,000 termites a day and that the Thorny Devil is covered in spikes and walks with a swagger motion. In fact, it is these interesting and quirky facts that children (and Adults) will love.
Pete Cromer is a contemporary Australian artist who is based in Victoria. Renowned for his bold collages and signature bursts of glowing colours, this book is a work of art and should be enjoyed by everyone.
Author Pete Cromer challenges the reader to create a name for a number of different animals that so far have not been given a collective noun. We are all familiar with a mob of Emus or a lounge of Lizards, but what would you call a group of Bilbies, Blue Tongue lizards, or even Tawny Frogmouth Owls?
My fun fact from this book is that I discovered that Blue Tongue lizards prefer to live alone, and they have no collective noun. Since I seem to have at least six blue tongue lizards living around my home, my collective noun for them would be afamily.
Title: Bushlife
Author/Illustrator: Pete Cromer
Publisher: Five Mile, $29.99
Publication Date: 15 November 2021
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781922514608
For Ages: 4+
Type: Picture Books
February 28, 2022 at 12:34AM DimbutNice