Did you know...You can count 4 rats for every 1 person in the city.Rats can have up to 12 litters of babies per year.In 3 years, 2 rats and their offspring can produce up to 20 million descendants. Fi
Did you know...
- You can count 4 rats for every 1 person in the city.
- Rats can have up to 12 litters of babies per year.
- In 3 years, 2 rats and their offspring can produce up to 20 million descendants.
Find out all sorts of interesting things about rats and enjoy a chuckle along the way.
Alain Bergeron is a Quebec writer born September 24, 1957. Before becoming a full-time youth author in the fall or 2005, he was a reporter for twenty years in Victoriaville. The least we can say is that it is a very prolific writer, with over 130 books! He writes for various youth age groups, and publishes between 15 and 20 titles a year.
Samuel Parent,
pen name Sampar, was born in 1973 in Victoriaville Quebec. He is a self-taught illustrator and cartoonist. He made his mark in recent years in the publishing world by being a winner of the New York Times top 10 illustrators of the year for 2014 and by being a finalist for the Governor General of Canada 2004 (Youth illustration). He has also been a Mr. Christie's Book Award 2002 finalist Awards, a favourite books Youth Communication-Jeunesse finalist, and a Hackmatack Award finalist in 2003 and 2004.
Sampar's illustrations fascinate and capture the imagination of young and old alike. He is the father of three children and admits: "My dream is to make sure that my children can have something from me when they are old enough to be interested in reading."
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"The graphic novel element really sets the "Do You Know?" series apart from other animal fact books. Children will be attracted to the colourful illustrations and hilarious dialogue between the comical characters.Do You Know Rats? cleverly presents numerous scientific facts about rats in a comical graphic-novel format. Throughout the book, the reader learns about the classification, population, reproduction, eating, and behavioural habits of rats. . . Sampar's humorous, colourful cartoon illustrations and speech bubbles bring the scientific rat facts to life by creatively depicting them through the perspective of rats.
Recommended".
— CM Magazine
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