How to promenade with a python (and not get eaten)
Rachel Poliquin ; illustrated by Kathryn Durst
- Toronto Tundra Books 2021
- 74 pages color illustrations ; 24 cm
- A polite predators book .
"A polite predators book" -- Cover.
"A funny and informative graphic novel about pythons."-- "Meet Frank. He's a 300-pound python with 100 pointy teeth, night vision and a killer squeeze. And he wants you to join him for a moonlit walk. I hope he's not hungry. But don't be afraid to say yes. If you follow my expert advice, you'll survive with style! Trust me. I'm a classy cockroach. What could possibly go wrong?Celeste is a cockroach, and everyone knows that cockroaches are survivors, so who better to give advice on surviving an encounter with a polite predator? Everyone also knows that taking a moonlit promenade with a deadly reticulated python (named Frank) is a very bad idea. Using her superior pythonine knowledge, Celeste comes up with various strategies and solutions -- many dangerous, most absurd, but all based on the biology of pythons"--
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