The Polar Bear
(Sprache: Englisch)
Following on her gorgeous book, The Blue Whale, Desmond's The Polar Bear is exquisitely rendered, magnificent, and precise, with wonderful storytelling too.
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Following on her gorgeous book, The Blue Whale, Desmond's The Polar Bear is exquisitely rendered, magnificent, and precise, with wonderful storytelling too.
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A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award- PRI Science Friday Best Science Books of 2016
- Huffington Post Best Non-Fiction (Nature) of 2016
- Brainpickings Best Science Books and Best Children's Books of 2016
- Selected for The Original Art exhibition 2017 by The Society of Illustrators, New York, US
"Fresh perspectives...gorgeous double page spreads... Desmond adds some wit and whimsy to her fact-based presentation."-Washington Post (Best Children's Books)
"This book sets a high bar for modern picture book non-fiction."-Huffington Post
A gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book about the polar bear, this is a factually accurate as well as a poetic exploration of polar bear bodies, habits, and habitats. Working in a painterly, expressive way, Jenni Desmond creates landscapes and creatures that are marked by atmosphere and emotion, telling a story about bears that engages the reader's interest in amazing facts as well as their deep sense of wonder.
Translations of The Polar Bear: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Taiwanese, Turkish
Jenni Desmond is an award-winning illustrator, artist and picture book author whose books have been translated into over 20 languages. A graduate of the renowned MA program in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art (ARU), Jenni Desmond works from her studio in London, UK. This, her second She has won The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award 2016, the Camrbidgeshire 'Read it Again' picture book award, and a Maurice Sendak Fellowship. Her other nonfiction titles with Enchanted Lion Books are The Blue Whale and The Elephant.
Autoren-Porträt von Jenni Desmond
Jenni Desmond is an award-winning illustrator, artist and picture book author whose books have been translated into over 20 languages. She has won The New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, the Camrbidgeshire 'Read it Again' picture book award, and a Maurice Sendak Fellowship. Jenni lives in East London UK with her husband and baby daughter. When she's not in her studio, you'll find her cooking, cycling and swapping city life for long hikes down by the sea shore or up in the hills and the mountains.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jenni Desmond
- Altersempfehlung: 4 - 8 Jahre
- 2017, 48 Seiten, Maße: 24,9 x 29,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Enchanted Lion Books
- ISBN-10: 1592702007
- ISBN-13: 9781592702008
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2016"Following the success of The Blue Whale, Desmond has delivered another poignant and refreshing look at these magnificent animals, threatened with extinction." -Picture Books Blogger
"With a touch of metafictional flair, a young girl pulls this very book down from the shelf to read about polar bears and is immediately immersed in their fascinating world. She learns about their habitat, physical characteristics and adaptations, and feeding and hunting habits. The writing is engaging, and facts come at a fairly quick pace. The mixed-media artwork is charming; broad washes of color are balanced by lovely details of polar bears as they go about the business of their lives."-STARRED REVIEW, Jody Kopple, School Library Journal
"An empathic illustrated invitation into the world of one of our planet's most vulnerable creatures."-Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"From the first page, Desmond creates an immediate bond with readers. She depicts a young girl reading a book, The Polar Bear, the same book we are also holding. Absorbed, the girl enters the narrative, discovering many facts about polar bears as she begins to follow one bear across the frozen Arctic. Although not consistently graceful ("On warm days, they [bears] might stretch out on their back with their feet in the air or lie down on their stomach"), the enumerative text is clear and informative. But it is the mixed-media collages that steal the show here. Whether depicting the vast polar landscape; or creating a diagram of the features of the polar bear (including bad breath!); or illuminating a text point, such as a female in her den; or using a chart to represent the bear's food sources, the double-page-spread illustrations add detail and depth to the text. The young girl, introduced initially, appears throughout, dancing under framed spot art clarifying the features of polar bear paws or laughing as she tries to avoid getting
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wet as the bear shakes off water. The narrative comes full circle with parallel events: a female bear gives birth, completing the journey through the seasons, and the young girl, now back home and finished with reading her book, curls up to sleep."-Betty Carter, The Horn Book
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