Beginning of the Armadillos (Polish Edition) [Paperback]

Rudyard Kipling (Author), Lorinda Bryan Cauley (Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0152063811 | ISBN-13: 978-0152063818 | Publication Date: March 15, 1990

Recounts how armadillos came to be in the Amazon jungle.

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From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 6?From the Just-So Stories comes this romp of a tale about how the hedgehog and the tortoise use language to muddle a young jaguar out of eating them. When they then understand that Mother Jaguar can't so easily be confused, they exert themselves to acquire each other's skills in swimming and in curling up. As a consequence of the hedgehog's soaking and the tortoise bending, they both mutate into new creatures?unidentifiable, but provisionally tagged "armadillo." Rowe's whimsical paintings foreground the main players (and quite a few amusing walk-ons) against a series of arbitrarily "evolving" abstractions of quasi-Amazonian flora. The wit of the illustrations is equal to the cleverness of the text: both may appeal most to those sophisticated 3-year-olds and 30-somethings who appreciate the obfuscatory qualities of language and the mutabilities of identity.?Patricia (Dooley) Lothrop Green, St. George's School, Newport, RI
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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His sweeping tales of adventure, including "Kim, Captains Courageous, " and "The jungle Book", won him wide popularity during his lifetime and have been beloved by generations.

Rowe was born in England and studied art at schools in England and Austria.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Sandpiper (March 15, 1990)
• Language: Polish
• ISBN-10: 0152063811
• ISBN-13: 978-0152063818
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,746,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Children's Book!, October 14, 1998

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This review is from: Beginning of the Armadillos (Polish Edition) (Paperback)

Beginning of the Armadillos was a good book, and it held good description. It captures a young child's imagination and is very informative. I enjoyed it.