Title:
My presentation today is about the anaconda / by Bibi Dumon Tak ; illustrated by Annemarie van Haeringen ; translated by Nancy Forest-Flier.
ISBN:
9781646145102
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Montclair, New Jersey : Levine Querido, 2025.
Translation : ©2025
Original : ©2022
Physical Description:
223 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in the Netherlands by Querido NL, [2022]."--Page facing title page.
Original title: Vandaag houd ik mijn spreekbeurt over de anaconda.
Includes index.
Contents:
To start off... -- "Hello, I'm a cleaner fish, and my presentation today is about the shark." -- "Hello, I'm a blackbird, and my presentation today is on the rose-ringed parakeet." -- "I'm a rose-ringed parakeet and that's why my presentation is on songbirds." -- "Hello everyone, I'm a midwife toad and my presentation today is on the koala." -- "I'm a zebra and my presentation today is on pure black-and-white animals." -- "I am a snow leopard and my presentation is on the snow leopard." -- "... I am the hermit crab and my presentation was on the regal blue tang." -- "Hello, I am a mole and my presentation today is on the daddy long-legs." -- "Hello, I'm a fox and my presentation today is on geese." -- "Hello, I'm an earthworm and my presentation today on in the anaconda." -- "Hello, I'm a southern cassowary and in my presentation today I'm dealing with the hummingbird." -- "Hello, I'm a howler monkey and my presentation today in the unicorn." -- "Hello, I'm a death's-head hawkmoth and my presentation tonight is on the flying squirrel monkey." -- "Hello, I'm a barn own and my presentation today is on the Tasmanian devil." -- "Hello, I'm a leaf insect and today I want to give a presentation on the sea anemone." -- "Hello, I'm the white rhinocerps and today I'm giving my presentation on the shoebill." -- "Hello, I'm a gila monster, and today..." -- "... I'm a wild donkey and my presentation today is on megabats." -- After a long wait... -- "Hello, I'm a fruit fly and my presentation today is on the scarlet lily beetle." -- "Hello, I'm a gila monster and I'm finally giving my presentation on the... blue sea dragon." -- One last thing... -- Index* (made by the earthworm and the midwife toad).
Summary:
"Who needs another book by humans? All they do is make us animals super boring. They only look at things through their own eyes. Every, single, time. Human after human. Kid after kid. Class after class. YAWN! This is a book of oral presentations given by us animals, for us animals, and about us animals. The cleaner fish will talk about his friend the shark and his sharp teeth. The zebra will get to tell you about all the black-and-white animals in the world. The mole knows everything there is to know about the daddy longlegs. The southern cassowa-yes, fox? What is it? Yes, you'll get to talk about geese. Huh? Yes, you'll get to talk about how delicious they are. Anyway, there's about twenty of us giving talks on twenty more. With a lot else packed in." -- Jacket flap.
Language Note:
In English; translated from the Dutch.
OCLC Number:
on1442928998
Availability:
~0
