{"id":19800,"date":"2019-03-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=19800"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:50:47","slug":"martin-browns-lesser-spotted-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2019\/03\/20\/martin-browns-lesser-spotted-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Brown’s Lesser Spotted Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Martin Brown<\/strong> (David Fickling Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-910200-53-7 (HB) 978-1-910989-56-2 (PB)<\/p>\n

It’s a beautiful, wonderful world which we humans – sadly, the temptation to say You Humans<\/em> grows stronger in me every day – don’t appreciate enough. Thankfully, there are still many studious, thoughtful types – many of them rather artistic in temperament – who are aware of the astounding fascinations of flora and fauna for the public, and remain joyously eager to share what they know.<\/p>\n

Available in hardcover and paperback, this glorious book is the phenomenally compelling and generally hilarious efforts of one of the best of them\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Martin Brown hails from Melbourne (that’s in Australia where they have loads of amazing, little-known and generally deadly bugs and critters) but made his name as a designer, cartoonist and illustrator in the United Kingdom (not so many dangerous beasts, but far too many idiots).<\/p>\n

After training as a teacher and working for television in Oz, Brown put on a backpack and travelled around the world for a bit. He stopped when he got to Britain, and lived by doing drawings: greetings cards, cartoons, magazines and book illustrations. The books included Coping with Parents<\/strong> (by Peter Corey), Philip Pullman’s New Cut Gang<\/strong> and a series of popular children’s tomes written by Terry Deary entitled Horrible Histories<\/strong>. Those light-hearted factoid files sold upwards of 20 million copies\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Brown draws good and he draws funny: very, very funny.<\/p>\n

A couple of years back, the artist compiled a bright and breezy bestiary of the creatures less well-represented on TV and in environmental and ecological campaigns: animal underdogs – although there’s not one of those included here – that always get pushed out of the limelight by glamour-pusses like Lions, and Tigers and Bears.<\/p>\n

Oh. Why?<\/p>\n

It’s certainly not because they’re dull, boring or inconsequential\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Martin Brown’s Lesser Spotted Animals<\/strong> is an award-winning graphic treatise which highlights and introduces a host of creatures that will take your breath away: described and delineated with wit, empathy and proper facts like Size<\/em>; What they eat<\/em>; Where they live<\/em>; their Status<\/em> (from Critically Endangered<\/em> to We don’t know<\/em>) as well a specific fact on each that will delight or disgust, depending on your age or maturity\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Fabulously, hilariously illustrated, please meet here and be besotted by the Numbat<\/em>, Cuban Solenodon<\/em>, Lesser Fairy Armadillo<\/em>, Zorilla<\/em>, Silvery Gibbon<\/em>, Dagger-Toothed Flower Bat<\/em>, Long Tailed Dunnart<\/em>, Russian Desman<\/em>, Speke’s Pectinator<\/em>, the<\/em> Onager<\/em>, Banded Linsang<\/em>, Yellow-Footed Rock-Wallaby<\/em>, Gaur<\/em>, Sand Cat<\/em>, Southern Right Whale Dolphin<\/em>, Three Monkeys<\/em> (Red-Faced Spider Monkey, Grey-Shanked Douc Langur and Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey), Hirola<\/em>, Crabeater Seal<\/em>, Ili Pika<\/em>, Zebra Duiker<\/em> and Black-Footed Ferret<\/em>: all topped off with an extremely accessible Glossary<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Sure, you can look them all up online but there they’ll just be cute or awesome, not funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

An utterly enticing piece of work that could only be improved by an accompanying set of badges, greetings or post cards\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nText and illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 2016 Martin Brown. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Martin Brown (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-910200-53-7 (HB) 978-1-910989-56-2 (PB) It’s a beautiful, wonderful world which we humans – sadly, the temptation to say You Humans grows stronger in me every day – don’t appreciate enough. Thankfully, there are still many studious, thoughtful types – many of them rather artistic in temperament – who … <\/p>\n

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