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Crocodiles, Camels & Dugout Canoes: Eight Adventurous Episodes
(Hardcover, 1998)
Author: Bo Zaunders
Illustrated by: Roxie Munro
Presents eight adventurous episodes that took place in British Guyana, Saudi Arabia, the Arctic, and...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0525458581
ISBN-13: 9780525458586
Sep 1998
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
48 pages
Grade:
From 3 to 4
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Presents eight adventurous episodes that took place in British Guyana, Saudi Arabia, the Arctic, and other parts of the world.
| Size | | Length: | 48 pages | | Height: | 11.3 in | | Width: | 10.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
Husband-and-wife team Zaunders (a newcomer to children's books) and Munro (the Inside-Outside Book series) have mined the annals of 19th- and 20th-century world travel and exploration literature, emerging with eight men and women whose exploits particularly fascinated them. Their enthusiasm and their subjects' own intrepid spirits shine through the pages of this absorbing picture book. Whether traveling with Dervla Murphy by bicycle from Ireland to India in the 1960s, sneaking into Mecca in disguise with Richard Burton in 1853, or scaling the summit of the Andes's highest mountain with 58-year-old Annie Smith Peck in 1908, readers can't help being drawn in by these dramatic incidents. Zaunders judiciously incorporates the explorers' own words, giving an immediacy and vigor to his accounts. He also has an eye for the kind of eccentric detail that appeals to children Charles Waterton as an octogenarian prankster, for instance, hiding under the dining table and barking at a guest, or Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, future author of The Little Prince, launching his literary career at age 14 with the autobiography of a top hat. Munro's watercolors pepper the pages with crisp visual detail and even inject a bit of humor, as in a depiction of proper Victorian lady Mary Kingsley bottoms-up in a leopard pit, saved from treacherous spikes by her full skirts. Informative and supremely entertaining, this book demonstrates that reading can be a great adventure, too. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
Bukey
Gr 3-6-Eight vignettes that present tantalizing impressions of a diverse assortment of intrepid adventurers. Varied by era, the featured exploits range from 1820 to 1963. The daring risk-takers include a previously sheltered Victorian woman who ventured among a cannibalistic tribe in Africa; a polar explorer who was forced to seek help for his crew when his ship was crushed by an Antarctic ice pack; and a pre-Darwinian naturalist who, while exploring the steamy jungles of British Guyana, captured a large boa constrictor with a straight right to the jaw. A lively introduction explains the birth of this book from the original inspiration, through a strenuous selection process, to this fine finished product. Zaunders's clear writing, the exciting episodes, and Munro's spirited full-color drawings result in a rousing collection of adventures that calls to mind the anticipatory suspense created by the weekly chapters in film serials at long-ago Saturday-morning movie matinees. Such an engaging package can stand four-square on its own merits, much as the plucky (and often eccentric) explorers portrayed here.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Christiansen
Husband-and-wife team Zaunders (a newcomer to children's books) and Munro (the Inside-Outside Book series) have mined the annals of 19th- and 20th-century world travel and exploration literature, emerging with eight men and women whose exploits particularly fascinated them. Their enthusiasm and their subjects' own intrepid spirits shine through the pages of this absorbing picture book. Whether traveling with Dervla Murphy by bicycle from Ireland to India in the 1960s, sneaking into Mecca in disguise with Richard Burton in 1853, or scaling the summit of the Andes's highest mountain with 58-year-old Annie Smith Peck in 1908, readers can't help being drawn in by these dramatic incidents. Zaunders judiciously incorporates the explorers' own words, giving an immediacy and vigor to his accounts. He also has an eye for the kind of eccentric detail that appeals to children Charles Waterton as an octogenarian prankster, for instance, hiding under the dining table and barking at a guest, or Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry, future author of The Little Prince, launching his literary career at age 14 with the autobiography of a top hat. Munro's watercolors pepper the pages with crisp visual detail and even inject a bit of humor, as in a depiction of proper Victorian lady Mary Kingsley bottoms-up in a leopard pit, saved from treacherous spikes by her full skirts. Informative and supremely entertaining, this book demonstrates that reading can be a great adventure, too. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
Publishers Weekly (08/31/1998)
Husband-and-wife team Zaunders (a newcomer to children's books) and Munro (the Inside-Outside Book series) have mined the annals of 19th- and 20th-century world travel and exploration literature, emerging with eight men and women whose exploits particularly fascinated them. Their enthusiasm and their subjects' own intrepid spirits shine through the pages of this absorbing picture book. Whether traveling with Dervla Murphy by bicycle from Ireland to India in the 1960s, sneaking into Mecca in disguise with Richard Burton in 1853, or scaling the summit of the Andes's highest mountain with 58-year-old Annie Smith Peck in 1908, readers can't help being drawn in by these dramatic incidents. Zaunders judiciously incorporates the explorers' own words, giving an immediacy and vigor to his accounts. He also has an eye for the kind of eccentric detail that appeals to children Charles Waterton as an octogenarian prankster, for instance, hiding under the dining table and barking at a guest, or Antoine de Saint-Exup ry, future author of The Little Prince, launching his literary career at age 14 with the autobiography of a top hat. Munro's watercolors pepper the pages with crisp visual detail and even inject a bit of humor, as in a depiction of proper Victorian lady Mary Kingsley bottoms-up in a leopard pit, saved from treacherous spikes by her full skirts. Informative and supremely entertaining, this book demonstrates that reading can be a great adventure, too. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
Publishers Weekly (08/31/1998)
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