Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon

by Rosemary Mosco

Overview

Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection brings facts about birds, bees, and insects to life in the quirkiest, most wonderful way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449493394
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	04/17/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Rosemary Mosco is a science writer and artist, and she’s passionate about sharing her love for the natural world. She creates the science webcomic Bird and Moon and has written and drawn for Audubon, Nature Ecology & Evolution, The Nib and more. She once spent six months drawing all 162 species of snake in the United States. Her favorite bird is the Laysan Albatross.

Editorial Reviews

07/01/2018
Gr 5 Up—Though it's petite to the point of pocket-size, this volume is packed with information on fantastic fauna and hilarious riffs on weird animal behaviors. Mosco's affection for the animal kingdom comes through on every page as she creates a digger wasp's online dating profile or celebrates the turkey vulture's projectile vomiting abilities. She makes it look easy—though the pages are chock-full of colorful, cartoonish animals, each creature is detailed enough to be identifiable as a specific species, which is important when a brown creeper, a nuthatch, and a yellow-bellied sapsucker are bonking into one another, slapstick-style, on the trunk of a tree. Webcomics often transfer clumsily from screen to page, but this collection escapes that trap. Mosco's enthusiasm may well spark readers' interest in ornithology, entomology, or herpetology—the only disappointment is that it isn't twice as long. VERDICT Written with an older audience in mind, the book nonetheless promises to amuse middle grade and YA readers while giving them facts to surprise, gross out, and boggle parents and peers for days.—Emilia Packard, Austin, TX

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