The Great Pretender by Theo Jansen Gifts for Kids The Ocean’s Menagerie is a

The Ocean’s Menagerie is a tale of biological marvels

and provides hours of educational entertainment

and beautiful vintage Victorian art

and a call to arms to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems

a psychologist

The Great Pretender by Theo Jansen Gifts for Kids The Ocean’s Menagerie is aThe Great Pretender is a journey into Dutch artist Theo Jansens imagination and creative process. This full color book is filled with photographs, illustrations, and writings about Jansens artistic process and philosophies. The right hand pages provide a continuous narrative, and throughout eight chapters Jansen describes the seven periods that comprise the development of the strandbeeststhe enormous beach animals Jansen creates with yellow plastic