Unnatural Selections

Wallace Edwards

Description

Beloved illustrator Wallace Edwards invites us into the world of Professor I.B. Doodling, a traveling artist who takes suggestions from schoolchildren in order to create fantastical hybrid animals. The result of these visits is Unnatural Selections, a collection of magnificent beasts, from the stately Whalephant to the talented Lizabouboon. Sure to inspire the imagination, Wallace Edwards’s intricate illustrations invite you to pore over them again and again. A supplementary index lists additional creatures to spot throughout the book’s pages, encouraging readers to go back for a second, and a third, look.

Sujets

• 6-12 ans
• Toute la fiction jeunesse
• Jeunesse Animaux
• Arts visuels
• Architecture
• Fiction Jeunesse
• Imagination
• Play
• Juvenilee Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781459805576
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Text and illustrations copyright © 2014 Wallace Edwards
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval
system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Edwards, Wallace, author
Unnatural selections / Wallace Edwards.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
isbn 978-1-4598-0555-2 (bound).--isbn 978-1-4598-0556-9 (pdf).--
isbn 978-1-4598-0557-6 (epub)
I. Title.
ps8559.d88u55 2014
jc813’.6
c2014-901576-3              c2014-901577-1
First published in the United States, 2014
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014935386
Summary: A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures.
Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies:
the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts,
and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.
Cover and interior artwork created using watercolor, gouache and pencil.
Cover artwork by Wallace Edwards
Design by Chantal Gabriell
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To Katie, my love, and to
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Sage and Chase.
—W.E.