Leonora Hornblow (1920–2005)
Author of Animals Do the Strangest Things
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- Other names
- Schinasi, Leonora (birth)
- Birthdate
- 1920-06-03
- Date of death
- 2005-11-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Fearrington Village, North Carolina, USA
- Occupations
- novelist
children's book author
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- Works
- 10
- Members
- 2,594
- Popularity
- #9,905
- Rating
- 4.4
- Reviews
- 21
- ISBNs
- 32
Michael K. Frith's art is lovely and fun, and clearly strongly inspired by Charles Knight and other early paleo-artists. The writing however is awful. Besides the completely inaccurate biology, these folks had clearly no idea how plate-tectonics worked, to the point that the descriptions of explosions under the earth causing mountains to rise had to be inspired by Disney's Fantasia 1940. The story telling also wanders in tone and topic pretty wildly, though it ends with a PSA to save the whales, so that's something.… (more)