Animal Footprints

Another book I grabbed on that trip to the Daedalus Books Warehouse is Animal Footprints by Yoshinko Kato. It’s a Japanese children’s science book covering a hodgepodge of fourteen mammals ranging from elephants to spiny echidnas. The text is laid out as an assortment of random facts about each species, with a focus on how the animals use their feet. It’s not too different from the treatment you find in many children’s encyclopedias, and if this were all the book had to offer it would probably get looked at once or twice and never come off the shelf again. But the book also includes a life-size ink footprint from each of the animals it describes, and that’s the feature that keeps my three-year old coming back to it again and again.


Animal Footprints
by Yoshinko Kato
illustrated by Kunihiko Hisa
English translation by Dianne Ooka
1993
Heian International, Inc.

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[Binay Pattanayak]

Dear friends,

I am Chief Consultant (Pedagogy) to the Govt. of India for the Education for All programme in the country. I am keen to have a look at this nice book named Animal Footprints. Is it possible to send me a copy (free sample) of the book in the following address? We can populaise this nice book through our regular (quarterly quality review meetings in the country).

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