PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
David Elliott is the award-winning author of many books for children, including the New York Times best-selling And Here's to You! as well as On the Farm, In the Wild, In the Sea, and On the Wing. He is also the author of Baabwaa and Wooliam, illustrated by Melissa Sweet; Nobody's Perfect, illustrated by Sam Zuppardi; and The Two Tims, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo. David Elliott lives in Warner, New Hampshire. Matthew Trueman is the illustrator of several books for children, including Hippos Are Huge! by Jonathan London and One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin by Kathryn Lasky. He lives in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
Elliott's clever, winking poems are chiefly interested in keeping readers entertained: Some way you were among/ the first to leave the ocean/ and touch the wet black earth, he writes as an armored Eurpterus slinks out of the water. We're glad you did, / for what it's worth. But closing notes should satisfy their curiosity about these ancient beasts--or send them searching for additional information. --Publishers Weekly Trueman's dynamic, creatively composed mixed-media illustrations plunge readers into past environments using awesome, sometimes scary perspectives: up close to the bloodied jaws of a carnivorous Dimetro- don, underneath the massive tail of a Brachytrachelopan or a striking Titanoboa, and within the giant ferns of the Triassic Period. --The Horn Book
