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Bond, Rebecca

In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton

32 pp. | Houghton | November, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-07675-1 $16.00

(2) K-3 The brothers Kearton, pioneering bird photographers, adopted nature's own strategy with ingenious camouflages. Three years and 30,000 miles yielded "the first nature book ever entirely illustrated with photographs," including the excellent several appended here. Bond's freely rendered watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations evoke the dedicated brothers and their marvelous contraptions with discernment and humor. Notes on the photographers' later lives are appended. Bib.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010