Flamingos Fly

Discover what these animals do in this playful board book by award-winning author Douglas Florian.

Flamingos fly. Sailfish swim.

Monkeys swing on a jungle gym!

Discover what different animals do in this fun, rhyming story by award-winning author Douglas Florian! Animals include flying flamingos, swimming sailfish, swinging monkeys, diving dolphins, soaring swallows, creeping starfish, digging prairie dogs, lunging lizards, plunging pelicans, jumping jaguars, leaping llamas, and sleeping sloths.

Douglas Florian is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator best known for his poetry collections, including?Beast Feast, which received the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award;?Mammalabilia, which received the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award;?Dinothesaurus, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year as well as a?Kirkus Reviews?Best Book of the Year and a Junior Library Guild Selection;?Bow Wow Meow Meow, a?Parents?Magazine Best Book of the Year; and many more. He is also the author of?Once I Was a Pollywog;?Leap, Frog, Leap!; and?The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits. Florian is also a fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in numerous art shows, and a former?New Yorker?cartoonist. He lives in Long Island, New York. Visit him online at douglasflorian.com.

Barbara Bakos has been drawing for as long as she can remember. She has worked as an art director and a character and background designer for a television series, but she always knew that she wanted to spend more time as an illustrator. She now focuses on children's book illustration, including?Once I Was a Pollywog?and?Leap, Frog, Leap!?She lives in the United Kingdom.