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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eric Carle Nick Bruel Lucy Cousins Susan Jeffers Steven Kellogg Jon Klassen Tom Lichtenheld Peter McCarty Chris Raschka Peter Si;s Lane Smith Erin Stead Rosemary Wells Mo Willems Everybody has a favorite animal. Some like little white dogs or big black cats or hoppy brown bunnies best. Others prefer squishy snails or tall giraffes or sleek black panthers. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, 14 children's book...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Theres no need to head to Africa for a safari. Readers can grab a few sheets of paper and this book to create many of the animals one would see through the ancient art of origami! A brief introduction allows those new to paper folding to learn the terms and folds needed to complete the crafts. Then, a lion, elephant, monkey, leopard, rhino, and giraffe take shape as readers follow the clear, step-by-step instructions provided for each project. Rated...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you want to capture a beloved pet cat or a magnificent wolf on paper, this book provides a complete course in how to draw them. All the essential drawing techniques and materials you need are explained clearly and simply by Lucy, and two brand new sections show you how to sketch the key features of a wide variety of animals such as eyes, ears and fur, and how to capture movement. The book includes 8 exercises, so you can put you can put your...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As you explore this knitter/naturalist's notebook, you'll learn about the creatures she discovers and see her sketches, notes, and knitting patterns for each animal. Each animal is portrayed realistically, yet endearingly, from a leaping cottontail to a howling timberwolf--25 wild animals in all"--
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In this delightfully illustrated book Susie Wynne shows how to draw and paint a range of popular pets in watercolor - dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, horses - in step-by-step detail.
Learning how to paint your pet has great popular appeal. The Daily Mail weekend color supplement has already featured Susie Wynne's work twice and this brought in a huge postbag.
Susie specializes in painting people's pets and over the years she has perfected her drawing...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Knitting patterns for 24 wild animals. There is something here for everyone, with instructions for knitting spots, stripes, fur, scales, trunks, wings and beaks! The animals are surprisingly easy to make. It will only take a few evenings to create yourself an exotic pet or reproduce your favorite species. These knitted animals in miniature are much easier to look after than the real things - they don't need feeding, they won't make a mess and they...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Paintings of ten African animals, including lions, zebras, and elephants, are accompanied by nature facts. Each animal portrait is painted by a student from the How to Draw a Lion program, a nonprofit art education program that provides art classes for children in sub-Saharan Africa"--
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