Product Description

Antbear, Bushbaby, Crocodile... this African alphabet brings together creatures of all shapes and sizes in a stunning series of illustrations. Each picture features the animal engaged in a typical activity, and the simple, rhyming text makes each page easy to memorise as well as being wonderful to see. At the end of the book, the author's animal notes provide information for older children and adults on the habitat and behaviour patterns of the animals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54944 in Books
• Published on: 1996-07-30
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Review
'A lovely rhyming alphabet book of African animals. Philippa-Alys Browne's distinctive illustrations burst onto the page in an array of colours and tribal patterns. The text's simple rhyming patterns can easily be memorised by infants, while introducing them to new vocabulary. As many of the animals featured are both unusual and endangered, older children and parents will find the factual notes section on behaviour and habitat informative.' - Action Aid --Action Aid

'A stunning picture book for the under 5's to treasure' --The Times

'African Animals ABC by Philippa-Alys Browne is full of undeniably stunning watercolour illustrations, weaving richly coloured tribal patterns into the animal shapes and providing a useful glossary at the back with Nature Notes on less familiar beasts such as the xoona moth and the dassie' --Times Educational Supplement

About the Author
Philippa-Alys Browne was born and has lived in Zimbabwe for most of her life. She graduated in Fine Art in 1984 and has exhibited on a regular basis in Zimbabwe, the UK, and more recently the United States. She paints in Memphis, Tennessee where she lives with her husband and young daughter. She has illustrated African Animals ABC (1995), A Gaggle of Geese (1995), Kangaroos Have Joeys (1996), Elephants and Emus (1997), and The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac (1997) for Barefoot Books.