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The Greedy Python (Illustrator)(Paperback) by Richard Buckley & Eric Carle

The Greedy Python (Illustrator)(Paperback) by Richard Buckley & Eric Carle
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> In this humorous story about manners, respect, and friendship, a greedy python eats every creature he comes across in the jungle. The devoured animals eventually befriend one another in the belly of the snake, where they team up and kick the inside of the python until he spits them out. Full color. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> A classic tale of a greedy snake, with illustrations from Eric Carle, is now available as a Ready-to-Read.</b> <p/>In this humorous story about manners, respect, and friendship, a greedy python eats every creature he comes across in the jungle. From a tiny mouse to an enormous elephant, the devoured animals eventually befriend one another in the belly of the snake, where they team up and kick the inside of the python until he spits them out. Rather than learning his lesson, the python sticks to his greedy ways. When he spots his own tail and mistakes it for food, he swallows himself and...disappears!<br> This amusing--and cautionary--tale features Eric Carle's vivid illustrations and rhyming text that's been adapted into a Level 1 Ready-to-Read, making it ideal for sharing aloud with emerging readers. <p/><br></br><p><b> About The Author </b></p></br></br> Richard Buckley is a much-traveled English writer of both prose and poetry. He has lived in New York, Paris, and London, but his present home is in Cheltenham, England, where he has lived for the past thirty years, bringing up two sons with his wife (and muse) Elfie. His books for children include <i>The Dutiful Penguin</i>, <i>The Foolish Tortoise</i> (with Eric Carle), <i>The Greedy Python</i> (with Eric Carle), and <i>The Bird Who Couldn't Fly</i> (with Alex Williams). <p/>Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including <i>The Tiny Seed</i>, <i>Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me</i>, and his most well-known title, <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i>. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i> and later as art director for an advertising agency. <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i>, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.

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