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Animal Opposites
By Peter Horacek

Candlewick Press
2013 / ISBN 9780763667764
Children's literature
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Reviewed by Bob Walch

This pop-up book introduces children to opposites. Using a variety of creatures, celebrated illustrator Petyr Horacek shows the difference between "smooth" and "spiky,", "weak" and "strong" and "tall" and "short".

After introducing an animal like a hippo on one page that exemplifies an idea such as "heavy," the opposite page offers a flap that when lifted shows the opposite. In this instance it is a butterfly that pops-up as an example of "light."

The big surprise comes at the end of the book when a huge elephant unfolds that will have the child laughing with delight. Other animals include a lion, giraffe, meerkat, sloth, porcupine, cheetah, goose and frog.

 
Reviewed 2013
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