Atlas of Extinct Animals
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The first book in the Large Encyclopedias series presents animals that once walked the Earth but have vanished due to the actions of humankind.
In Atlas of Extinct Animals, award-winning poet Radek Malý tells the stories of forty-one extinct species and studies the causes of their sad demise.
The large-format in Atlas of Extinct Animals is supplemented with beautifully expressive full-page illustrations by gifted artist Jiri Grbavcic and detailed pictures by renowned scientific illustrator Pavel Dvorsky.
The gorgeous, detailed depictions and descriptions of species and their eventual extinction serves as a reminder and a warning of how much life has already disappeared from the Earth.
The atlas also shows that species continue to disappear. As we get closer and closer to present day, we are introduced to creatures that still existed in recent years, like the Zanzibar leopard (until 1996) and the Chinese river dolphin (until 2007). And in the end, we are left with a bitter question: Which creature will next be added to this atlas?
This book was selected by White Ravens 2020 for the annual catalog of book recommendations in the field of international children's and youth literature.
About this Author
Radek Maly is a Czech writer, poet, translator, and university teacher. His work have achieved international success, they includethe young adult title Franz Kafka - A Man of His Time and Our Own (2017) and a collection of poems for children Postman Wind (2011), which was entered on the IBBY Honor Roll.
Pavel Dvorskyhas illustrated dozens of publications with a majority of them focusing on scientific and popular-scientific themes. He is a teacher at the Secondary School for the Decorative Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. Since 2004, he has maintained a certain variety in his work by designing stamps for the Czech Post Office."
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