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Kodomoni Aisareta Naturalist
(Seton: The Children’s Beloved Naturalist)
Text by Yoshiharu Imaizumi
Ill. by Seton, Ernest Thompson
Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 2002
368 pp: 220 x 150 mm
ISBN : 4-8340-1853-9
Ages : 10+
Animals, Nature, American History
Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award 2003 |
This is a biography of E.T. Seton (1860-1946), the famous author of Wild Animals I Have Known, which includes such interesting animal stories as Lobo: the King of Currumpaw and Silverspot: the Story of a Crow. Seton was born in Scotland in 1879 but his family moved to a Canadian farm when he was 5 years old. The young Seton encountered an array of wild animals while tending cows and sheep. After studying art in London, he returned to the USA to help on his brother’s farm and to continue his observations of wild animals. Seton had a deep empathy with the traditional way of life of native American people and started to campaign for the importance of the preservation of their forest life. He also founded the Boy Scout Movement. With more than 200 of his own illustrations and 50 other plates depicting life at this time, this book describes diverse aspects of this naturalist.
Yoshiharu Imaizumi was born in Tokyo in 1940 and graduated in veterinary medicine from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He translated Seton’s works and H.D. Thoreau’s Walden, or the Life in the Woods. He loves to spend his time in forests observing and studying small mammals like field mice, squirrels and flying squirrels. In turn this passion is channeled to writing books about these creatures. |
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