Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess, Deanna Nikaido

National Geographic Kids Photo Ark (Limited Earth Day Edition)

Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
Fotograf: Sartore, Joel

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Produktbeschreibung

Our planet's most beautiful and endangered animals come to life in this visually stunning picture book. The photos, by award-winning National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, represent a lifelong project to make portraits of the world's endangered animals. They are paired with uplifting poetry and prose from Newbery award-winning author Kwame Alexander -- a talented dream team duo to craft a uniquely wonderful book. This special edition includes a free poster highlighting 50 endangered species to commemorate the 50th anniversry of Earth Day. A howling wolf, a stalking tiger, a playful panda, a dancing bird -- celebrate the beauty, diversity, and fragility of the animal world in this lush picture book that pairs the stunning photography of National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore with the delicate mix of poetry and prose of Newbery award-winning author Kwame Alexander. Featuring more than 40 unique animal portraits, the pages invite kids to explore each creature's markings, textures, and attributes in stunning detail, while calling on all of us to enjoy and help protect each and every one. Three picture-packed gatefolds inside showcase even more familiar and exotic species. These images are part of Sartore's lifelong project to photograph every captive animal species in the world, with special attention given to saving endangered species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Disney Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 258mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781426372070
• ISBN-10: 1426372078
• Artikelnr.: 58568895

Autorenporträt

KWAME ALEXANDER is a poet, educator, and New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books, including The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American Literature for Children. His other recent works include Booked, Surf's Up, and He Said, She Said. He is the founder of Book-in-a-Day, a student-run publishing program that has created more than 3,000 student authors in 75 schools. JOEL SARTORE is the founder of the Photo Ark, a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, National Geographic Fellow, regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. In addition to the work he has done for National Geographic, Sartore has contributed to Audubon Magazine, Geo, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, the Smithsonian magazine and numerous book projects.