White Ravens’99/Ireland/66149
Milano, Ed (text/illus.)
 It’s a jungle out there
 Dublin: Wolfhound, 1997. [32pp]
 ISBN 0-86327-570-2
 Cat - Outdoors - Self-identity - Hide-and-seek
 In this inner monologue a white cat describes its backyard »jungle kingdom«. In the luxuriant stylized
 pictures of natural hiding places, animal life, and other shadowy shapes, the viewer shares the cat’s
 perspective of a wide world of danger and mystery. This picture book gently triggers the imagination and
 invites repeated readings (a lady-
 bug is also hidden on each double page spread), not only as a bedtime story. The author-illustrator has
 achieved remarkable harmony between text, illustration and book design. (4+)
 (Bisto Book of the Year Award, 1998, Shortlist)

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