Madagascar: The Essential Guide.Madagascar Madagascar (măd'əgăs`cär), officially Democratic Republic of Madagascar, republic (2005 est. pop. 18,040,000), 226,658 sq mi (587,045 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, separated from E Africa by the Mozambique Channel. Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island.: The Essential Guide Stephen Cole DK DK - Dan Kennedy DK - Danish Kingdom DK - Dankort (Danish credit card) DK - Dark Knight (gaming) DK - Dead Kennedys (band) DK - Death Knight (gaming) DK - Decay DK - Deck DK - Deforest Kelley (actor) DK - Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) DK - Denmark DK - Denmark (airline tax code) DK - Deutscher Kaiser (German Emperor) Dk - Dielectric Constant Dk - Diffusionskonstante (German: diffusion constant; Oxygen Permeability of contact lenses) Publishing, Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 075661175X $12.99 www.dk.com Madagascar: The Essential Guide is a picturebook offering backstory information pertaining to the popular and entertaining CGI motion picture "Madagascar", about four animal friends--a hippo HIPPO - Headquarters Information Program Planning Office, a lion, a giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. The neck, which is up to 7 ft (2.1 m) long, has only seven vertebrae, the usual number in mammals, but each is very elongated. The legs are also long and end in large hooves; the body is relatively short., and a zebra--who desire to escape their zoo and live in the wild. Madagascar is not narrated in the traditional storybook style, but rather devotes each two-page spread to a closer look behind the scenes of the movie and within the personalities of the characters, along with with fun and true facts about the island of Madagascar and its wildlife. As a movie for all ages, Madagascar especially to be commended in that it does not pretend that predator/prey relationships do not exist, even in a movie that features predator and prey animals as friends, and Madagascar: The Essential Guide makes a note of this. A delightful movie tie-in sure entertain young readers, and designed to mix in a little education, too! |
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