Animal Snackers

This natural history classic about animals' favorite treats includes fascinating facts about tickbirds, gorillas, ostriches, koalas, platypuses, porcupines and other exotic creatures eating habits. Told in amusing rhyming verse and republished with all new illustrations.

Publishers Weekly

Betsy Lewin's Animal Snackers returns with cheerful new watercolors that serve up the rhymes from the 1980 edition as a delectable new entree. The volume covers everything from the anteater ("His snout is like a hose./ He just sucks ants up his nose") to symbiotic tickbirds ("The rhino tolerates these guests/ because they rid him of his pests"). Even picky readers will likely return for seconds. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Caldecott Honor winner Betsy Lewin has illustrated more than fifty books for children, many of which she has authored as well. She is the author/illustrator of Cat Count and the illustrator of Dumpy La Rue, written by Elizabeth Winthrop; A Houseful of Christmas, by Barbara Joosse; and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin. She and her husband, artist Ted Lewin, collaborate on books like Gorilla Walk based on their real-life adventures in exotic locations.

Visit Betsy Lewin at her web site: www.betsylewin.com