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Description
Rhyming text shows what kinds of lullabies animal parents, such as an elephant, a fish, or a snake, might sing to their young.
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North-South Books (2006), 40 pages
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Lilijana Praprotnik Zupancic, better known to her fans worldwide as Lila Prap, is a Slovenian children's author and artist whose work I have just recently discovered - her Why? was one of our November selections over in the International Children's Books Club to which I belong - and I have been
Like her Daddies, which contained a number of rhyming poems about a father and son pretending to be various animals, Prap's Animal Lullabies is also a thematic poetry collection, presenting fourteen different animals as they ready themselves for bed, and go to sleep. Unfortunately, unlike that other collection, which read very well, the poems here felt somewhat stiff and awkward. They weren't terrible, but they definitely weren't up to Prap's usually high standard. Still, I thought the artwork, with its vivid color palette and bold, stylized animal shapes, was as engaging as ever, and I would therefore recommend this one to the author/artist's fans. Just don't expect something quite as fun as Daddies, or as cool as Dinosaurs?!
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working my way through all of her titles that my library system stocks. Animal Lullubies (first published as Živalske Uspavanke) is the fifth Prap book I have tried, and the first, unfortunately, that wasn't quite a winner for me.Like her Daddies, which contained a number of rhyming poems about a father and son pretending to be various animals, Prap's Animal Lullabies is also a thematic poetry collection, presenting fourteen different animals as they ready themselves for bed, and go to sleep. Unfortunately, unlike that other collection, which read very well, the poems here felt somewhat stiff and awkward. They weren't terrible, but they definitely weren't up to Prap's usually high standard. Still, I thought the artwork, with its vivid color palette and bold, stylized animal shapes, was as engaging as ever, and I would therefore recommend this one to the author/artist's fans. Just don't expect something quite as fun as Daddies, or as cool as Dinosaurs?!
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
40 p.; 9.9 inches
ISBN
073582097X / 9780735820975