The Greedy Python

Brief Description: A greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself. Brief Description: Originally published in the U. S. by Picture Book Studio, 1985. Brief Description: "This book was previously published with slightly different text"--Jkt. Biographical Note: 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 The Dutiful Penguin," The Foolish Tortoise" (with Eric Carle), and The Bird Who Couldn't Fly" (with Alex Williams). Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, and moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Stuttgart before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times" and later as art director for an international advertising agency. His first two books, 1,2,3 to the Zoo" and The Very Hungry Caterpillar," gained him immediate international recognition. The latter title, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into forty-eight languages. Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, divide their time between the mountains of North Carolina and the Florida Keys. Publisher Marketing: A classic tale of a greedy snake, with illustrations from Eric Carle, is now available as a Ready-to-Read. 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! 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. Review Citations:

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2012 pg. 47 (EAN 9781442445772, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 6 (EAN 9781442489912, Board Books)

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2012 pg. 47 (EAN 9781442445765, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Buckley, Richard 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 "The Dutiful Penguin", "The Foolish Tortoise" (with Eric Carle), "The Greedy Python" (with Eric Carle), and "The Bird Who Couldn't Fly" (with Alex Williams). Contributor Bio:  Carle, Eric Eric Carle is the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers. Eric Carle was born in New York, USA. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York. Eric Carle has received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration. In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world. Eric Carle es el creador de mas de setenta libros ilustrados para ninos. Nacio en Syracuse, Nueva York, pero a los seis anos de edad se traslado con sus padres a Alemania. En 1952, tras graduarse de la prestigiosa Akademie der Bildenden Kunste de Stuttgart, logro cumplir su sueno de regresar a Nueva York. Ha recibido muchos e importantes premios y distinciones, entre ellos el Laura Ingalls Wilder Award en 2003, por su aportacion global a la literatura y a la ilustracion infantil. En 2002, cincuenta anos despues de su regreso a los Estados Unidos, se inauguro en Amherst, Massachusetts, el Museo Eric Carle de Libros Ilustrados, donde se exhibe, ademas de la obra completa de Eric Carle, un buen numero de originales de los mas destacados ilustradores de libros infantiles del mundo entero.