Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin
From Scholastic:
The ostrich eyes with eager glint / A stone – his after-dinner mint.
It is a snack that he must swallow / So indigestion does not follow.This natural history classic about animals’ favorite treats includes fascinating facts about tickbirds, gorillas, ostriches, koalas, platypuses, porcupines and other exotic creatures eating habits. Told in amusing rhyming verse and republished with all new illustrations.
Animal Snackers is the first book by Pratt Institute graduate Betsy Lewin (b. 1937). It was published with bread-dough animals (and ITC Souvenir and Cooper Black for the typography) by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1980.
The book was reissued by Henry Holt & Company in hardback in 2004, with revised text and new illustrations by the author, now rendered in brush and ink. Designer Patrick Collins used Bonita for the cover and the headings. Jim Parkinson’s all-caps face from 1996 is set on a bouncing baseline and with a subtle drop shadow. The rhymes are added in Century Gothic.
Shown here is an undated reissue by Scholastic, with unchanged design.
