Pinkalicious meets Fear Factor in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!
Jess Keating is a zoologist-turned-author who writes with the sort
of wisdom you can only get from multiple crocodile bites and skunk
sprays. Jess has been making up stories for as long as she can
remember, and at the age of eight, she even started a library in
her room (mainly so she could charge her brother late fees). In
addition to nonfiction, she writes middle-grade novels, including
the Kirkus-starred How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are
Untied.
Jess lives with her husband in Ontario, Canada, where she is hard
at work on her next book in the World of Weird Animals series.
Hint- There will be bloodsuckers!
"The 2016 Ambassador to Young People’s Science and Nature books is
unquestionably the blobfish." —Shelftalker
"The comical tone makes this particularly inviting, and
DeGrand’s cartoonish illustrations only add to the fun. A
playful introduction to the kookier corners of the animal
kingdom." —Booklist
"Readers will never look at pink the same way.... Keating maintains
a casual tone while delivering intriguing details about each
animal." —Publishers Weekly
"Bratz, Monster High, and their ilk have recently demonstrated that
how much attitude pink can pack, but Nature has been onto this
fact for quite a while. Keating rattles off seventeen
creatures from land, sea, and air whose coloration punches
a hole in pink’s girly-girl image." —The Bulletin
"Pink is for bubble gum and ballet slippers, sure, but it's also
for blobfish, pinktoe tarantulas, pygmy seahorses, Amazon river
dolphins [etc.] . . . A map and glossary are the pink icing on
the pink cake. It's clearly time to rethink pink, people." —Shelf
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