Full Product Details
Author: Lena Anlauf ,
Vitali Konstantinov ,
Marshall Yarbrough
Publisher: North-South Books
Imprint: North-South Books
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 23.30cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9780735845626
ISBN 10: 073584562
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
Recommended Age: From 6 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""Recommended for all elementary, middle school and public libraries. It's attractive, informational, and fun!""-- ""Youth Services Book Review"" ""The book is especially visually appealing. Detailed ink-and-colored-pencil artwork in muted earth tones covers two-page spreads, with large, detailed illustrations of featured critters facing pages filled with accessible blocks of text, plus three or four additional drawings showing the subjects in action. The illustrations also extend to the endpapers, offering maps and diagrams [. . .] Thedetailed glossary, unusual creatures and source and chapter notes will be of interest to report writers. A worthy addition for most animal-book shelves.""-- ""Booklist"" ""A particularly engaging addition to natural history shelves.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""A prodigious portrait gallery of prominent proboscises."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews, starred review for Genius Noses"" ""Genius Noses is a winner for older kids. Five stars out of five.""-- ""NY Journal of Books on Genius Noses"" ""Readers can dip in and out for a plethora of engaging and even silly facts.""-- ""Booklist on Genius Noses""
"""A prodigious portrait gallery of prominent proboscises."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews, starred review for Genius Noses"" ""Genius Noses is a winner for older kids. Five stars out of five.""-- ""NY Journal of Books on Genius Noses"" ""Readers can dip in and out for a plethora of engaging and even silly facts.""-- ""Booklist on Genius Noses"""
Author Information
Lena Anlauf was born in the Ruhr region of Germany. She studied book studies and philosophy in Mainz and Leiden and completed a further education course on pedagogy of literacy and literature as well as a remote course on children’s and young adult literature at the STUBE in Vienna. Today she lives in Marburg, works as editorial director at the kunstanstifter verlag, researches historical picture books, writes and designs her own book projects, and puts on readings and workshops for children. Genius Noses was her children’s book debut. Vitali Konstantinov was born in Ukraine. As a child he saw the desman at the natural history museum and was fascinated. Vitali studied architecture, graphic art, painting, and art history, and has taught illustration courses at universities in several countries as well as numerous workshops for children. His work has been exhibited extensively, has received many prizes, and has been published in forty different countries. Most recently he was nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Today Vitali works as a freelance illustrator and author and lives in Marburg. He drew the illustrations for Genius Noses and Genius Ears with drawing ink and colored pencil on watercolor paper.
