Summary
"David Antenborough narrates this picture-book send-up of a nature documentary, sounding just like the real-life David but with more gesticulations, since he has six limbs at his disposal. Director Stephen Spielbug tries to keep the cast of characters on task, but it's worse than herding cats: The o... Full description
Summary: |
"David Antenborough narrates this picture-book send-up of a nature documentary, sounding just like the real-life David but with more gesticulations, since he has six limbs at his disposal. Director Stephen Spielbug tries to keep the cast of characters on task, but it's worse than herding cats: The orb-weaving spider would like to eat one or two other actors; the grasshopper is a diva; the worm is too busy munching dirt to emerge from the ground on cue; the robin has joined a union and declines to show up for the predation scene; and the slug is too embarrassed by his slime to perform. Despite the chaos--or maybe because of it--we learn some things about these animals, and backmatter nature facts give us more"-- |
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Item Description: |
Cover title. At head of title: Steven Spielbug and David Antenborough present ... |
Physical Description: |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
ISBN: |
9780884484639 0884484637 |
Author Notes: |
Fran Hodgkins (Rockport, ME) is the author of more than 20 books for young readers, including The Whale Scientists , a Junior Library Guild selection, and How People Learned to Fly . Her book The Secret Galaxy (page 75) was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a California Reading Association Eureka Gold Award winner. |