A beautiful book of pop-up animals which demonstrate through opening flaps simple opposites including smooth frog and prickly porcupine, slow snail and fast cheetah, heavy hippo and light butterfly. The pictures are bold and colourful and make their points clearly. The flaps robust making this is perfect book for small hands. A delightful companion volume to Petr Horacek’s Animal Counting.
This is a pop-up introduction to opposites from award-wining artist, Petr Horacek. Turn the pages, lift the flaps and see animals of all shapes and sizes bring to life the world of opposites. From slow snail to fast cheetah, heavy hippo to light butterfly, smooth frog to prickly porcupine, Petr Horacek's pop-up animals encourage early literacy, language and communication. With its fun illustrations and interactive pages - learning has never been so much fun! This is a companion volume to Animal Counting (ISBN 978-1-4063-3761-7).
Petr Horáček's bold and imaginative illustrations continue to captivate children and critics. His stories, often about loyalty and belonging, are told with an instinctive warmth and humour and are beautifully brought to life through his evocative use of colour and texture. He has won many awards around the world for classics such as Suzy Goose and A New House for Mouse and was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012. He lives in Worcester.
