Just Like Us! Birds

by Bridget Heos, David Clark (Illustrator)

Overview

Get the facts on some of nature's most beloved animals and discover the unexpected ways humans and birds are similar in Just Like Us! Birds. Appealing mix of photographs and cartoon illustrations.

What animal composes music, decorates its home, weaves, and even gives gifts? BIRDS! While they may eat bugs and lay eggs, we actually have a lot in common with our winged friends. From their parenting to their homemaking, their fishing to their dancing, birds do have lots in common with people—though with fascinating twists all their own.

Factual and funny and featuring a dynamic mix of photographs and cartoon illustrations, Just Like Us! Birds will charm even the most reluctant nonfiction readers.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328466563
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Series:	Just Like Us! Series
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	NC980L (what's this?)
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Bridget Heos is the author of more than 100 books for kids, including the popular Mustache Baby books and the nonfiction Just Like Us! series. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and four children.
authorbridgetheos.com
Twitter @bridgetheos
David Clark is the author of numerous books for young readers. He lives in Virginia with his family. You can learn more about him at sites.google.com/site/davidclark1988.

Editorial Reviews

"Heos offers young readers and listeners a humorous way to make connections with the world of birds." –Kirkus "Heos engages kids in facts about ants and birds by comparing their traits to similar human ones in this humorous series . . .  In each volume, Heos smartly links the various spreads together so that readers can build upon their understanding . . . Recommended for general purchase, especially wherever humor is popular." –SLJ —

From the Publisher

2017-08-21
Though different from humans in many ways, birds do many things people do. Heos offers young readers and listeners a humorous way to make connections with the world of birds. Birds learn songs through baby talk and create varied sound effects. They try to attract their mates with fancy dancing. They build and decorate comfortable homes. Parents protect, feed, and clean up after their babies. (The intended audience may particularly enjoy the description of penguin crop milk—a regurgitated meal—and the idea that some birds eat their chicks' fecal sacs.) They teach their chicks important skills. Many birds travel long distances. And they're social, even having conversations as human beings do. The specific examples come from a wide range of bird species. They appear to have been chosen for their likely kid appeal rather than to reveal common bird behaviors. Some are behaviors that have only occasionally been observed or been observed only in captivity. This collection of far-fetched facts has been illustrated with a combination of photographs and caricatures of googly-eyed birds, sometimes engaged in human activities. A similar compilation, Just Like Us! Ants, is being published simultaneously. Light entertainment—a laudable attempt to connect the animal world to our human one, but it relies too much on anthropomorphization to make its point. (Informational picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews