About this item
Highlights
- Silver Medal at the 2019 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.
- 4-9 Years
- 10.3" x 8.5" Hardcover
- 28 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Animals
Description
About the Book
Silver Medal at the 2019 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. A magical, educational book printed in stone paper about the importance of showing love and respect for animal life.
Book Synopsis
Silver Medal at the 2019 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. A magical, educational book printed in stone paper about the importance of showing love and respect for animal life.
The day began in absolute chaos. General Ant had received a message about the imminent danger. On the surface, Chloe and Jack were having fun poking sticks into the anthill, attacking the colony once again. anthill. The General sends an order to soldier ants by sending a special aroma signal that wafted through the many tunnels and caves in the colony. Hundreds of worker ants, together with the soldier ants, rushed through the tunnels to protect the storeroom and their Queen, who was laying eggs. Will these tiny, fascinating insects be able to defend their anthill, and teach the children to respect them?
The Ants' Secret is a story about the importance of respecting animals and nature, and an insight into the lives of ants.
Review Quotes
"The art and text complement each other perfectly, creating a world that evokes Latin American magical realism, the visual distinctiveness of Lane Smith's art, and the worldbuilding of the movie Antz." --Kirkus Reviews
"This picture book, with a simple structure and narrated to the rhythm of a series of illustrations, tries to recreate the interior of the underground passageways and contributes to make readers aware of the fundamental role that ants play in our daily lives, from their work fighting pests up to their pollination of plants by dispersing seeds and to their contribution to increasing the fertility of the land." --Canal Lector
About the Author
Baltasar Magro Santana (Toledo, Spain, 1949) is an acclaimed writer and journalist. He studied Philosophy and Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid and, years after, studied Journalism. For more than thirty years he has worked in different television programs as a scriptwriter of cultural, documentary and entertainment programs. In 2019 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Toledo awarded him the Literature Prize and he was nominated for the Emmy Awards for TV in the United States for a report on the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt.
The award-winning illustrator Dani Padrón was born in Ourense, Spain, an architect by training. He started his career as an illustrator in 2011, after winning the Pura e Dora Vézquez Award for the illustrations of his first book. Since then, he has published several picture books. In 2016 he was awarded Gold Medal at the International Latino Book Awards with the book The Little Golden Key, published by Cuento de Luz.