Rainforest

by Julia Groves (Illustrator)

Overview

Travel deep into the forest – what elusive and fascinating creatures will you find there? Delicate, colourful and distinctive, Julia Groves’ illustrations introduce us to the animals that live in this precious and endangered habitat. Wildlife fans will be thrilled to encounter all kinds of rainforest creatures – from the familiar species to the more obscure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846439353
Publisher:	Child's Play-International
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Series:	Child's Play Library
Pages:	36
Sales rank:	307,086
Product dimensions:	11.25(w) x 8.62(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Julia always wanted to be an artist and she originally studied Fine Art printmaking at Brighton University. She recently went back to study at Cambridge School of Art, where she gradually unravelled a way of making illustrations and telling stories on the Children’s Book Illustration MA. She also discovered that her printmaking experience has been very useful in her exciting new life as a creator of picture books. She enjoys working with all kinds of materials and processes; especially printmaking, cut-paper, hand-drawn and letterpress typography, all combined through the magic of digital media. Julia lives in the beautiful medieval city of Norwich, UK, with her husband and two children.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2018
Gr 3–6—The attention-grabbing orange bill of the Toco Toucan splashes across the cover of this introduction to life in the rain forest. Inside the book, the color palette softens and the artwork contains the textured look of woodblock illustrations. Lyrical sentence fragments introduce animals, birds, and insects in their forest setting. Such memorable lines as "tiny foragers transport their treasure" (describing a column of leafcutter ants) give life to their toils. Quiet scarlet ibises are reflected standing in shallow water, and open-mouthed howler monkeys' voices seem to echo off the pages. The background colors change with each spread—outsize green leaves frame a stalking jaguar and black bats swoop on a purple-paged twilight. The last two pages offer identification and brief description of the six mammals, four reptiles, three birds, one fish, and one insect. VERDICT A lovely book for reading aloud or just leafing through. A fine addition to robust nonfiction collections.—Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA

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