![]() ![]() ![]() Now I am delighted to find, upon viewing all these years later, in the background some keystone cops skidding around the corner, batons in hand. This was the page I always checkout out first as a wee whipper-snapper (because my name is Kelly). My personal favourite discovery is on the K page – Kid Kookaburra and Kelly Kangaroo Kidnapping Kitty Koala. There is always something new to discover. You can literally spend hours searching for them all. If the reader chooses to look deeper, they will find scattered, hidden images of many other items beginning with that letter. There is a beautiful illustration for every letter of the alphabet and a poem on each page that uses each letter in beautiful alliteration, depicting each scene. Graeme has also rather cheekily hidden a picture of himself as a child on every page. Actually, reading it again after all these years … it still is.Īnimalia captures your imagination completely there are so many levels in this book! At the very beginning is a charming poem from Graeme where he invites the reader to discover up to a thousand things, or maybe more – it’s up to you to keep the score. Graeme Base’s perennial classic was first released in 1986 and was one of my absolute favourites when I was a child. Even the booksellers oohhed and ahhhed as I passed it over the counter. I just about squealed out loud with pure delight when I saw this gem sitting alone in my local second-hand bookstore. ![]()
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