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Animal Tricks

Animal Tricks( )
Author: Wildsmith, Brian
ISBN:978-0-19-279743-8
Publication Date:Feb 1981
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $11.95
Book Description:

Instead of a bag full of tricks, here's a whole book full of them. On one page, words tell you what the trick is -- "A pelican's beak can hold such a lot," for instance -- and opposite it, a full-page picture shows you how the animals do it. In this case, the pelican's carryinhg a bellowing hippopotamus in his beak.

Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.5 x 8.44 x 0.328 Inches
Book Weight:0.511 Pounds
Author Biography
Wildsmith, Brian (Author)
Brian Wildsmith was born on January 22, 1930. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London for three years. He later taught maths at the Royal Military School of Music but left so that he could pursue painting.

He began working with Oxford University Press in the late 1950s when he was commissioned to illustrate 12 color plates for Tales from the Arabian Nights. He wrote and illustrated more than 80 books during his lifetime including A Christmas Story, Cat on the Mat, and ABC, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal. He died on August 31, 2016 at the age of 86.

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