Talking Tails
The Incredible Connection Between People and Their Pets
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2012
Summary
Pets and their owners appear together in a book as heartwarming as it is informative.From our earliest beginnings, we have shared our lives with animals. Jane Drake and Ann Love explore the ties that humans and their pets have formed. With fun and fascinating facts, they address Dog People and Cat People. (Why does a cat wind around her owner’s legs? She’s rubbing her owner with glands on her face to say “you’re mine.”) They also introduce us to more unusual pets. There’s Polly the parrot, wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770493599 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 177049359X |
| Author: | Jane Drake, Ann Love, Bill Slavin |
| Publisher: | Tundra Books |
| Imprint: | Tundra Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 202mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |
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About The Author
Jane Drake
ANN LOVE and JANE DRAKE, sisters and coauthors, have written many award-winning books for young readers, including Cool Woods- A Trip around the World’s Boreal Forest; Snow Amazing- Cool Facts and Warm Tales; Trash Action- A Fresh Look at Garbage; Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy; and Alien Invaders- Species That Threaten Our World. They share a lifelong interest in the environment and the wild, travel extensively, and, through their books and presentations, inspire children to be more observant of the world around them. Ann Love and Jane Drake live in the Toronto area.BILL SLAVIN has illustrated over seventy books for children, including The Big Book of Canada by Christopher Moore and It’s a Snap- George Eastman’s First Photograph in Monica Kulling’s ‘Great Idea Series’, biographies for the very young. He has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award, the Blue Spruce Award, and the Zena Sutherland Award for Children’s Literature, among many others. Bill Slavin lives in Millbrook, Ontario.From the Hardcover edition.
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