Animal Friends: A Global Celebration of Children and Animals

by Maya Ajmera, John D. Ivanko

Overview

No matter if your friends have feathers or fur or if they're big or small you need to love and take care of them. Smiling faces from fifteen countries around the world introduce adorable, and sometimes exotic, animal friends. Once again Maya Ajmera and John Ivanko team up to share their vision of teaching youngsters the value of diversity and aiding them to grow into productive, caring citizens of the world. Beautiful and often comical photographs of children and their animal friends from all over the world portray the innocence and joy of childhood and a child's easy appreciation and love of a favorite pet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570915024
Publisher:	Charlesbridge
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Series:	Global Fund for Children Books Series
Edition description:	Board Book
Pages:	18
Sales rank:	124,183
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 6.06(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	1 - 4 Years

About the Author

Maya Ajmera is the founder of The Global Fund for Children. She is the co-author of several Global Fund for Children books, including Faith, Global Babies, Children of the U.S.A., and Children from Australia to Zimbabwe.

John D. Ivanko is an award-winning photographer and author, writer, national speaker, and conservationist.He is the co-author (with Maya Ajmera) or photo contributor to nine Global Fund for Children books. With Maya Ajmera, he's co-authored the award-winning To Be a Kid, Be My Neighbor, To Be an Artist, Back to School, Animal Friends, and Come Out and Play.

Editorial Reviews

Two smiling boys one Middle Eastern, one African cuddle baby goats in the opening spread of Animal Friends: A Global Celebration of Children and Animals by Maya Ajmera and John D. Ivanko. Later, an Asian toddler kisses a guinea pig on the nose and a freckle-faced redhead holds a kitten as the text points out the features (e.g., big/small, feathers/scales) of the animals pictured in the full-color photographs. (Feb.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-An unsuccessful board book. Each spread has a photograph of a child with an animal (duck, dog, giant turtle, goat, fish, etc.) and a phrase relating to it: "Some animals have feathers [a bird is depicted]. Some have scales [fish]." As stated in the subtitle, the youngsters represent many different cultures, but nowhere are their nationalities listed. Some will be obvious to adults; the photograph of the blond girl with a koala bear most likely represents Australia. However, others are more generic, such as a redheaded girl cuddling a kitten. While the children in the photos are engaging, there's not much else here to celebrate.-Olga R. Kuharets, Broward County Libraries, Fort Lauderdale, FL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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