Zelda The Varigoose

by Sebastian Loth

Hardcover, 2012

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You can be lots of things . . . but being yourself is the best of all! Who is Zelda the varigoose? Is she a bee or a snail? A giraffe, an elephant, a glowworm, a squid? Butterfly, peacock, whale? Transparent pages will let you see Different combinations, and you'll have lots and lots of fun With Zelda's variations. AGES: 4 to 8 AUTHOR: Sebastian Loth's lyrical texts and sweetly minimalist illustrations bespeak his childhood love of literature, and it comes as no surprise that he began writing poems and short stories while still at school. A banker and an economist, as well as a writer, Sebastian lives near Cologne, Germany. Colour throughout

Publication

NorthSouth (2012), 32 pages

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LibraryThing member Sullywriter

Fun concept somewhat reminiscent of Jack Prelutsky's Scranimals.

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LibraryThing member Kbenis1

I very much enjoyed this book, it was simple to read but it introduced nonsense words like: goosnail, chamelegoose, googiraffe, and goosquid. The book was interactive because the goose was pretending to be all different types of animals from a lighting bug to a snail or an elephant. But on each

page there was a clear page that laid over the goose to make it into that animal. On each page when the goose is pretending to be a different animal it gives a quick fact about that animal, for example: ‘life in a beehive’s very sweet, as there’s lots of honey for me to eat’. Throughout the book we saw the goose in many different appearances; however, in the end he asks the reader who he really is and his response is just a goose, what he most likes to be. I love the overall message of looking at things from different peoples perspectives but you will always be you and that is the most important thing you can be. I found it interesting in this story the goose’s name was in the title, Zelda, but it was never mentioned again throughout the story. I feel like this was to help the reader focus on the different types of animals and in the end seeing Zelda remain a goose.

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