Amazing Things Animals Do
July 3, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
A wonderful book for young children interested in animals. — Elizabeth Shaffer, BC Parent /2003
Gods Amazing Creatures and Me Devotions for Boys and Girls Ages 6 to 10 Devotions for Boys and Girls Ages 6 10
July 1, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
A creation devotional for children ages 6-10, which shows detailed, pen and ink illustrations of animals
Terrific Trains Amazing Machines
June 30, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Terrific Trains Amazing Machines
Big Trains, small trains, old trains, and new, rattling and whistling — Choo, choo, choo! Preschoolers will chuckle as a wacky animal crew toots the whistle and treats them to the delights only a train journey can offer. Clickety-clack, whizz down the track, slow to a railroad crossing, rumble through a tunnel, and finally pull into the station where passengers await the fastest holiday flyer of them all!
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Love it!
My 2 year old loves this book!! He loves trains and this book is so catchy and cute that my son has parts memorized. He can almost read it back to me! This book also helped my son understand some different features like the signals, switches, tunnels, coach cars, and different features that make up a train. If your child loves trains, then this will further your young ones knowledge to some extent.
5 Stars Terrific!!!
What a wonderful book! We got this for our 2 1/2 year old for Christmas. He loves it! The pictures are great and there’s not too many words on each page. The story is kind of a rhyme too. It’s so fun to read and our son gets excited about reading it. I will be getting more of these books.
5 Stars Terrific TRains
This was another gift to our great grand son. He loved it. So did his Mother.
5 Stars Terrific!
Both of my children (girl and boy) have loved this book. It is clever and rhythmic making it fun to read (I still don’t mind reading it after 4 years). I would highly recommend it especially for toddlers.
5 Stars My Boys love these books
We have the whole series now and my 5year old & 3 year old love all of these books. The illustrations are great and the text has been written in a way that enables my 5 year old to practise his reading skills. The last page with the glossary of vehicle parts gets their creative juices flowing on how it works…just be ready with further explanation as to the function of these parts…or ask Daddy!
Amazing Animals Coloring Book Dover Pictorial Archives
June 28, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Amazing Animals Coloring Book Dover Pictorial Archives
This coloring book introduces 44 of the world’s most unusual animals. Included are the shock-producing electric eel; the double-humped Bactrian camel; the aye-aye, a tree-loving, nocturnal primate with finger-like claws; and many other animals considered especially unusual because of their shape, coloration, defenses, and adaptation for survival. Captions provide information about each fascinating, accurately rendered creature. Dover Original. 44 full-page black-and-white illustrations. 11 full-color illustrations on covers. Captions.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great Info on Animals
This book is great for the information it gives you on the animals. As a coloring book it’s a bit hard for smaller kids, but still ok.
5 Stars Amazing templete pictures for silk painting
Fantastic. These books are the best I have found to find pictures to use as templets or stencils for designs to paint on silk.
5 Stars Amazing Animals Coloring Book
THIS WAS A GREAT BUY. My daughter has really enjoyed this coloring book. It is refreshing to finally be able to see her coloring realistic animals. This book contains many many pictures of very real animals. I think it is important to give kids a look at reality while they play. Realistic and educational.
Earth Then and Now Amazing Images of Our Changing World
June 27, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Earth Then and Now Amazing Images of Our Changing World
125 satellite, oblique, and ground-level photographs that illustrate examples of natural and human impacts on the environment. (K.B. Raitz, University of Kentucky Choice 20080801)
The strongest image of Beijing I am left with [is from] Earth Then and Now (George Fetherling Seven Oaks Magazine www.sevenoaks.mag 20081003)
It will absorb and surprise you in unexpected ways…. a thought-provoking view of humankind’s best achievements and worst mistakes. (Sunset Magazine 20071209)
This collection proves, perhaps once and for all, that a picture’s worth a thousand words. (Science News 20071121)
An eye-opener [and] definitely a book that environmentalists … may want to purchase and present to their favorite politicians. (Anne Kyle The Leader Post (Regina) 2008)
An interesting and often beautiful look at our planet, warts and all. Recommended for all residents of said planet. (Brian Soneda Skagit Valley Herald (Mount Vernon, WA) 200804)
An engaging coffee table book. (Christina Leadley Embassy Magazine 200805)
Selected as a 2008 ‘Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers’ by the Young Adult Library Services Association. (YALSA )
300 images [that] represent a virtual encyclopedia… Well conceived, well executed, worth a visit. (Kim Long The Bloomsbury Review )
Anyone who so much as leafs through this book will come away with a crystal clear understanding of [environmentalists
Natures Great Events The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet
June 26, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Natures Great Events The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet
Nature’s Great Events is the lavishly illustrated counterpart to the Discovery Channel’s landmark wildlife documentary, Nature’s Most Amazing Events. Using groundbreaking filming techniques and state-of-the-art scientific technologies, the book and the documentary on which it is based are epic in every sense, charting six seasonal events that transform entire ecosystems and the life experiences of the thousands of animals within them, from the largest mammals to the smallest microorganisms.
The six events include the flooding of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, which turns sprawling swaths of desert into an elaborate maze of lagoons and swamps; the melting of 10 million square kilometers of ice in the Arctic, which imperils polar bears across the region; the migration of the Serengeti, where life is on the edge for both predator and prey and where lions and wildebeest battle to survive; the great salmon run in British Columbia, where rivers teem with thousands of fish—and where grizzlies and wolves eagerly await them; the explosion of sea life in Alaska’s coastal waters, where countless animals from far and wide brave killer whales to feed; and the greatest marine spectacle on the planet, the annual tide of sardines along South Africa’s east coast, where the greatest concentration of predators—including sharks and dolphins—come to feast.
These events are among the processes most important to the survival of life on the planet. Tracking them at every stage with over 400 remarkable photographs throughout, the book follows individual animals as they live and die during these events, often capturing the drama from their unique point of view. The result is an awe-inspiring and truly novel work that brings these events into more brilliant focus than ever before.
ASPCA Kids Animals at Work
June 24, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Animals work hard to make ourworld a better place!
Animals are so much more than companions—they make amazing contributions to the planet and to the human race. Here, you’ll learn about the dogs who are lending a paw to protect livestock, guide people who can’t see, pull sleds and wagons, and so much more. You’ll also get the scoop on the jobs other animals do, like horses who serve in the military and law enforcement, and even cats who control vermin and provide therapy to the sick and the elderly.
Loaded with lots of color photos and friendly information you can trust, the ASPCA
Amazing Animal Facts
June 22, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
From beetles and bears to snakes and spiders, Amazing Animal Facts collects extraordinary information about animals from all over the world. Amateur zoologists will pore over this entertaining and informative photographic guide that’s as accessible as it is compelling.
ASPCA Kids Amazing Pet Tricks
June 20, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
40 cool tricks you can teach your pet!
Ever wonder how you can train your dog and other pets to perform amazing tricks like the ones you see on TV? Now you too can impress family and friends with 40 cool tricks that are a cinch to master with your four-legged companions. You’ll learn how to teach the basics that every good dog should know: sit, down, come, and stay. Then you’ll move onto the classics, like shake and roll over. And if you really want to captivate your audience, you can learn more advanced tricks, like working with props and taking your show on the road to perform at schools, nursing homes, and other pet-friendly venues.
Loaded with lots of color photos and friendly information you can trust, the ASPCA
Cartoonimals How To Draw Amazing Cartoon Animals
June 18, 2009 by Funny Animals · Leave a Comment
Cartoonimals How To Draw Amazing Cartoon Animals
It’s a cartooning fun-fur-all!
Draw 48 animal characters in short, simple steps
Four paws-up for Cartoonimals! This book makes drawing animal characters super easy and more fun than a barrel of monkeys. It begins with the basics - sketching, drawing facial features, body types, finding the right pose - ultimately, you’ll learn how to give your characters the kind of expressions, actions and attitudes that make them much more than lines on a page. Over 45 step-by-step demonstrations help you draw a cool and comical variety of characters, from a guitar-strumming octopus, to a porcupine pirate, to a surfing vulture.
Before you know it, you’ll be bringing your own original creations to life. With the expert advice in this book, if you can dream it, you can draw it!
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent Cartoon Manual for Beginners and Experts Alike
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This cartoon manual by Harry Hamernik (author of the equally excellent carticature manual - “Face Off”)neatly bridges the gap between beginner and expert instruction. It does this via a brief introduction to materials, leading in turn to basic shapes, anatomy and character design - all in an easy to follow, step by step method which will have even beginners able to draw the basics by page 31.
What it then does, which will be useful to more experienced cartoonists who may not have specialised in cartoon animals before, is to present over seventy pages of “practice gallery” featuring projects on a wide range of animals - from chimpanzees to crocadiles and snakes to sharks - which again are basic enough for the beginner, but also rich enough in character for the more experienced artist to use as a base for detailed work or for animation.
All in all, I would highly recommend this book as a great introduction to anyone interested in drawing cartoon animals, at whatever level.
5 Stars Awesome Book!!
This book is nothing short of spectacular. The author takes you step by step with clear and concise instructions on how to draw cartoon animal characters. Having owned Harry’s first book, “Face off”. I knew this one would be a good book I bought the book for my 9 year old son who loves to draw. We have only owned this book for about a month and i have noticed his skills in drawing have gotten a lot better. This book has material for pretty much all skill levels. If your looking to learn how to draw cartoon animals, look no further because this book really has it all. I give this book an A+. Looking forward to more great books from this author!!
5 Stars excellent book
This is an excellent book. I am a new cartoonist and I’ve been looking through a lot of books over the past few weeks. Most of them suffer from the same problem - they focus too much on showing off the author’s own art and fill the pages with huge pictures while providing little instruction on how the reader can produce their own works.
This book is different. It has very little filler. Spends one or two pages on materials, rather than 20 like in a lot of other books. The author spends time telling you how to construct each different part of the animal and teaches you tricks that will allow you to draw them from any angle facing any direction without having them appear “off.” He teaches you how to place the features on the face properly and how to construct a proportional body. Hamernik is genuinely interested in teaching the readers how to create their own animals and every picture he shows in the book is just an example, rather than something to just copy.
Like I said, the author seems genuinely interested in teaching as best as he possibly can. He even has a facebook group where you can post your cartoonimals and receive feedback. Pretty impressive, and he doesn’t charge money for it.
This is probably the best book out there if you want to learn to draw cartoon animals. I’ve looked at a lot of others and they are more focused on just teaching you how to copy their drawings, which is alright for a beginner like myself… but eventually you will want to learn the principals that will allow you to create great looking, original pictures. This is the book for you if that is what you are trying to achieve.
