Axolotl!: Fun Facts About the World's Coolest Salamander - An Info-Picturebook for Kids (Funny Fauna)

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The book shows Linda Bondestam’s mastery by the use and enrichment of the picture book’s entire range.” This was a book about the axolotl salamander that can be found down in Mexican canals although they are definitely rare now. As such I was actually amazed to see the amount of information included while at the same time noticing that the book was directed for a very much younger audience than I would think would be ready for this type of read. Animals around the world are headed to bed in this beautifully illustrated book, which adds an odd twist of quirkiness to make it an intriguing read…. The animals are depicted in a wonderful artistic manner, which adds a dash of sophistication. In other words, these are simply well done and beautiful in their style and flair.” Drowning in nostalgia for the lost world, the survivors create civilization after civilization, life after life, humanity after humanity. They form alliances and fight wars. They develop their own politics, ideologies and crazy hardware religions. And they face dilemmas no one has ever confronted before.

With a big heart, she paints a world that has changed forever, but which still has hope for a brighter future.” What makes us human? Is it possible to copy a soul? Who really lives, fights and dies in those metal bodies? Who plays out the melancholy drama of physiology and the flesh? Beautifully layered and illuminated underwater scenes, that appear to be watercolor and ink, create a mesmerizing world where the little Axolotl comes to vivid life.” nem viccből. Ez a történet teljesen komolyra, sőt, melankolikusra lett hangolva, egyáltalán nincs kedvünk heherészni a jobb híján szexbotokba és többtonnás munkagépekbe tömörülő tudatok emotikon-párbajai felett. Duellman, William E.; Trueb, Linda, " Biology of Amphibians", 1994, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Si bien el cuento relata la fascinante vida de los Axolotl, su particular manera de vivir y que una persona llegara a entenderlos de tal manera que se sintiera como uno de ellos, a través del relato del libro se puede llegar a conocer a este extraño animal no se salva de tener sus partes inconclusas llegando a dejar una sensación de vacío en el lector al saber que el cuento tiene final abierto. Axolotl es un cuento escrito por Julio Cortázar, publicado junto a otros cuentos, en 1956. Algunas de las temáticas que aborda esta historia son: la obsesión del narrador hacia estos anfibios, la empatía, la relación de una persona con una especie marina y los privilegios de los seres humanos. To što je Zemlja uništena nije bilo slučajno. Upornim istraživanjem i dedukcijom potvrđena je hipoteza da su napredni vanzemaljci procenili da je ljudski rod teška štetočina (živa istina) i da je najbezbednije spržiti nas na vreme. I tu gde bi neko tek zapodenuo SF serijal - ne, zapravo, na polovini nekog hipotetičkog serijala - Dukaj zaključi da je stigao do logičnog završetka razvoja svog junaka, počasti nas sa još nekoliko elegično-filozofskih stranica u stilu Lema ili pre Bredberija i aj ćao.

This is a beginners book on Salamanders and Newts. I mention it here because its section on breeding salamanders uses the Axolotl as the main example, and in so doing, gives a reasonable account, if not completely accurate (its mention of metamorphosing axolotls is rather disturbing in its approach, since it assumes that any axolotl can metamorphose). Apart from this, I recommend it for beginners. The horror began—I learned in the same moment —of believing myself prisoner in the body of an axolotl, metamorphosed into him with my human mind intact, buried alive in an axolotl, condemned to move lucidly among unconscious creatures. We hear the cry of soul of the narrator trapped inside the body of an axolotl, the narrator cries from the depth of his being as if he is being thrown in to this hell of nothingness wherein he can’t express himself as if his entire existence is shred to nothingness, just like the vermin Gregor Samsa of Franz Kafka turns into, in The Metamorphosis. The readers find the consciousness of the narrator being confined to the body of an axolotl, severed from the entire world as if the world turns deaf to him, he watches with soul stirring horror that he is reflecting upon his own being through glass of aquarium, it marks the intense loneliness of human life which he can’t escape even after the transformation. However, the treatment here is more optimistic and humane since the narrator soon realizes that axolotls are human like consciousness beings who are trapped in their bodies so as to say condemned to exist, contemplating upon their doomed reality without realizing their true existence. A kötet szokatlan szerkesztésmódjával nem egészen vagyok kibékülve. Eleinte nagyon tetszett a fura kéthasábos megoldás, később már erőltetettnek éreztem, ráadásul egy ilyen formabontásnak mindig nagy az ára is: fókuszvesztést, töredezett olvasási élményt okoz. Nem biztos, hogy megérte. Inkább érzem úgy utólag, hogy valamiféle naplózási fájlokat olvastam, mintsem hogy egy regényt. Persze lehet, hogy pont ez volt a cél. Julio Cortazar created a whole new world altogether wherein the ordinality was plunged to the great depth of nothingness to subvert the realism with surreal and fantastical elements, and what rises up from the annihilation of mundanity is an enigmatic and eerie reality of humanity which forces us to look upon ourselves from a whole new perspective. The author completely eschews the mundane rules of literature so as to write in a non-linear fashion and shifting perspectives which dance across various characters as human consciousness keeps on jumping from one to another, as if to emulate it. The fiction of Cortazar infuses fantastic and bizarre elements to our everyday reality to transform it to a haunting depiction of humanity so as to force us to see our own absurdity which is perhaps more close to the reality as we perceive. Over the years, we have seen that the prose has been progressively seen from the underlying meanings which one might explore by opening up its layers, Cortazar’s world gives us access to such a reality wherein we may have to actively participate to understand or rather assume the various possible realities which may lie in a possibility. How do you go about making a picture book for children that touches on one of the most difficult and painful issues of our time—the climate crisis? Bondestam does just this, with heart and mind, in a breathtaking story that bypasses people (or ‘big lugs’ as they’re called in the book) and heads for the margins…. The language is flexible and inventive, rather ingeniously making the axolotl the narrator. Thanks to this irresistibly charming protagonist, the story is brimming with empathy and nerve. By reflecting the small in the big, the reader can recognize and get involved in the fragile globe that we all live on whose future concerns us all.”The writing is very basic, in large print and in really simple sentences, which would encourage me to suggest this book is for beginning readers. But being that it is an informative book and that there is no place that gives pronunciation for either Xolotl or the axolotl I would be a bit leery to recommend it for starting readers unless there is a willing adult who doesn't mind reading along. himself as an expatriate from Latin America (Argentina)? the metamorphosis of a writer? or something else? Indiviglio, Frank, " Newts and Salamanders: a Complete Pet Owner's Manual", 1997, Barron's Educational Series. It's not an easy read. I can be confusing as the main character is a program never really in 'one' body, which is why the story often jumps (think of Ancillary Justice). It can be even more confusing once the main character obtains a dream module, after that the novel is constantly hallucinating. There's no real motivation or character development or even anything close to a 'character' here, but that is part of the message:

Honestly, I'm not sure what Cortazar is trying to say with this story. Is he talking about the Aztecs? Axolotul” – povestirea curge cu lejeritate, concizie, ambiguitate subtilă pînă la revelarea finală a metamorfozei, lăsîndu-te în fața unei dileme de tipul „ce a fost mai întîi – oul sau găina?”. The soft palette and mottled textures of the water contrasted against the more angular and crowded human world make striking visuals. . . The initial playfulness invites young viewers to see the world as the axolotl does so when disaster (after disasters) strikes, they understand the stakes.

In this sweet and beautifully designed small book, a little alien peers through a telescope at all the bedtime rituals on Earth. Using mixed media, Bondestam creates rich, layered illustrations featuring animals all across the globe…. Delicate pen-and-ink applied over the colors give the animals very expressive faces…. [I]t neatly resembles Margaret Wise Brown’s classic Good Night Moon, and fans of that book will appreciate the contrast.”