
Ape
Walker Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 5. November 2007
Book
Hardback
48 pages
978-1-4063-0376-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is an awe-inspiring picture book about the world's great apes. Orang-utan, Chimp, Bonobo, Gorilla - the great apes are some of the biggest and most extraordinary animals on our planet. Meet all four in this stunningly illustrated, large-format picture book, and find out how the fifth great ape - the human - impacts on the lives of these increasingly rare species.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 255 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4063-0376-6 (9781406303766)
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Persons
Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist and consultant for the WCMC, a UN organization concerned with conservation and the environment. He has won several awards for his work including the 1998 TES Information Book of the Year Junior Award for The Emperor's Egg, and he is the reteller of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver (9781406301748), illustrated by Chris Riddell, which won the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Cambridge. Vicky White worked as a zookeeper looking after the great apes at Cheshire Zoo - where she couldn't keep from drawing them! This is her first book for children. She lives in Surrey.