Amazing Animals

by Ingrid Schubert, Dieter Schubert

Introducing ordinary and extraordinary animals behaving, no matter how strange it seems, exactly as they do in nature.

Genres: Animals

40 pages, Hardcover

First published August 20, 1991

About the author

Ingrid Schubert is a German author who writes children's books together with her husband, Dieter Schubert.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Potentially valuable in that it shows connections not often explored in other books. For example, rather than birds with birds, it's more swimmers with swimmers. I think my favorite image is one of the first: a sampling of all sorts of critters that hatch from eggs.

Iow, good science. Reminds me of the Ruth Heller books that way.
Except sometimes it's bad science. There's a strong vibe given that each spread is a particular habitat. But then we see animals who do not live together sharing the spread. Egregiously, consider the polar bear and penguin, or the rhino and the jaguar....

The illustrations are lovely. Not as vibrant as Heller's, but more natural; the Schuberts didn't pick the most vividly colored of each family or genus, but rather the most recognizable. And I do appreciate that death and defecation weren't skipped over.

[Belinda Vlasbaard · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 sterren- Nederlandse hardcover

Katten, konijnen en muizen kennen we allemaal, maar wie heeft er wel eens een neusaap gezien? Of een vliegende eekhoorn?'

Tussen een mug en een olifant ligt een hele dierenwereld. In dit boek kun je de meest vreemde wezens met de meest vreemde gewoontes leren kennen. Maar natuurlijk ook de liefste en aaibaarste.

Heel erg mooie prenten en daarbij ook leuke en informatieve teksten. Zowel voor kleine kinderen als grotere kinderen, ouders en grootouders leuk! En sommige dingen wist ik ook echt niet!

[Jennifer B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully illustrated and talks about some of the less explored sides of animals in a non-threatening way.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book so often, I think I borrowed it from the library about 25 times. Well, maybe read is a bit of a too big word; I leafed through this book a lot because I was still too young to be able to read at the time this book was my most valuable borrowed library possession. The pictures were very beautiful, not the cartoonish figures you find in lots of children's picture books, but actual thin-lined drawings. This book even taught me a few things about the animal kingdom, like e.g. some animals play dead in order to aviod being eaten...I didn't know that when I was 5.

This book will always hold a special place in my heart and I have never forgotten about it (and this review is proof enough, I think).

[Mark Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun educational story that talks about life cycles, environments, and more. All at a level for children in a rhyme.