Can I read Arctic Animals : Discovery Kit on EtoBox?

Arctic Animals : Discovery Kit by Ben Hodson; Susan Banta; Jessica Olien; Laura Crawford; Carol J Votaw; Maxwell Newhouse; Laura K Marsh; Provo City Library at Academy Square (Provo, Utah) is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Arctic Animals : Discovery Kit about?

<p>Maxwell Newhouse, folk artist extraordinaire, has created a unique counting book. The premise is simple. He invites children to count with him from ten crunching caribou down to one lonely moose, by finding other northern animals - from seals to wolves to snowy owls - as they turn the pages. But as the animals appear, so does the snow, until it's a character too, obliterating light and dark, sky and earth. <p>A gorgeous exploration of the isolation and the beauty of northern winter, Maxwell Newhouse has created a deceptively simple picture book that can be enjoyed by all ages.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In this petite counting book, striking oil compositions feature groups of animals in an increasingly snowy Arctic. On the flip side of each page, Newhouse portrays the same animal ensembles in mid-movement, as though exiting the tableaus. Alliterative gerunds describe each scene&#58; a sculptural tower of rocks is a perch for "8 ravens raving" amid snow flurries, and on the following page, the flock lifts off. In another spread, four white hares huddle before withdrawing into the storm, and when a single moose, "silent in the falling snow," disappears, the next frame is fill

Who reads Arctic Animals : Discovery Kit?

Author

Ben Hodson; Susan Banta; Jessica Olien; Laura Crawford; Carol J Votaw; Maxwell Newhouse; Laura K Marsh; Provo City Library at Academy Square (Provo, Utah)

Publisher

Tundra Books of Northern New York

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781426311055

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.04 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14