Leonora Hornblow (1920–2005)
Auteur de Animals Do the Strangest Things
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Leonora Hornblow
The Love-Seekers by Leonora Hornblow 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Schinasi, Leonora (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1920-06-03
- Date de décès
- 2005-11-05
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Fearrington Village, North Carolina, USA
- Professions
- novelist
children's book author
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Critiques
Describes 17 fish that have peculiar characteristics and habits, including fish that spit, fly, climb trees, blow up like balloons, and sleep out of water.
Describes 22 birds with unusual habits or characteristics, including the ostrich, kiwi, honey guide and hornbill.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 2,614
- Popularité
- #9,819
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 21
- ISBN
- 32
Michael K. Frith's art is lovely and fun, and clearly strongly inspired by Charles Knight and other early paleo-artists. The writing however is awful. Besides the completely inaccurate biology, these folks had clearly no idea how plate-tectonics worked, to the point that the descriptions of explosions under the earth causing mountains to rise had to be inspired by Disney's Fantasia 1940. The story telling also wanders in tone and topic pretty wildly, though it ends with a PSA to save the whales, so that's something.… (plus d'informations)