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sharkysav's review
5.0
Super cute and helpful when I forget what a group of seals is called. Very useful and cute
krep___'s review against another edition
2.75
light & fun
nice illustrations: a nice balance of cute & stylized with accurate
text is interesting at times, but probably secondary to the artwork.
writing is sometimes childish in tone yet with adult vocabulary, so it's not clear who the intended audience is.
nice illustrations: a nice balance of cute & stylized with accurate
text is interesting at times, but probably secondary to the artwork.
writing is sometimes childish in tone yet with adult vocabulary, so it's not clear who the intended audience is.
positifany's review against another edition
5.0
Matt Sewell sweeps us along with waves of wordplay as we learn collective nouns of animals. His sources are silly and quirky and reach far back in time. The illustrations are an added bonus to the fun!
sharkysav's review against another edition
5.0
Super cute and helpful when I forget what a group of seals is called. Very useful and cute
lmeneghin32's review against another edition
5.0
A darling read for language enthusiasts and animal lovers. The illustrations add to the charm of the voice who describes the various groupings.
purelykara's review against another edition
3.0
Beautiful illustrations, plus a bit of history, environmental facts, and the wonderful use of language.
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trish204's review against another edition
4.0
I found out about this book thanks to a friend here and since I'm a linguist and love everything quirky about languages (palindromes, puns, etc), I also enjoy all the collective nouns of the animal kingdom. One of my personal favourites has always been "a murder of crows" though thanks to this book I now know that people have been very inventive with the names of other animal groupings as well. So of course I needed to have this book.
It is divided into the chapters "land", "air", and "water".
What I didn't expect but enjoyed very much was all the historical info about how the nouns came to be as well as some cultural context. Like in the example below:
The illustrations, too, of course. I got a taste of Matt Sewell's art in his other book I read yesterday and I really like his style. In this case it brought home the quirkiness of the labels we give animal groups and was the perfect combination.
It is divided into the chapters "land", "air", and "water".
What I didn't expect but enjoyed very much was all the historical info about how the nouns came to be as well as some cultural context. Like in the example below:
The illustrations, too, of course. I got a taste of Matt Sewell's art in his other book I read yesterday and I really like his style. In this case it brought home the quirkiness of the labels we give animal groups and was the perfect combination.
keeperkaylab's review against another edition
funny
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
3.0