Nature All Around: Birds

by Pamela Hickman, Carolyn Gavin

Overview

The perfect resource for budding bird-watchers. Because birds can be found in every neighborhood, and in all seasons, they’re an excellent choice for piquing children’s interest in wildlife. Here’s a comprehensive guide to birds that makes the perfect starting point. Beautiful pages explore many different bird species and their fascinating and unique characteristics, from feathers to eggs and nests. A year in the life of birds explains what to look for, season by season. And the beginning bird-watcher section helps kids get started in the field. Birds of a feather? More like, birds of every feather here! Kids will be grabbing their binoculars to spot them all around!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781525306037
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Series:	Nature All Around
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	28 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Pamela is an award-winning author of over 35 non-fiction nature books for children, including The Kids Canadian Nature Series, First Look at Nature Series, Animal Senses and Animals Hibernating. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.;Carolyn Gavin is a painter, illustrator and graphic designer. Her vibrant, colorful art reflects her love of nature and travel. You can find her work in books and magazines, and even on fabric. Originally from South Africa, she now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Editorial Reviews

Excellent for fledgling naturalists.—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Those many people who have yet to discover the wonder of birds and birdwatching will be inspired to grab a set of binoculars and head outdoors to see what wonders await them.—CM Magazine

... filled with information ranging from explanations of bird anatomy and homes to seasonal variations in development and migration.—The Horn Book

From the Publisher

★ 2020-06-03
“In this book, you’ll find out…about birds…from those you see every day to strange birds, and you’ll discover how you can become a bird-watcher.”

Following Plants (2020), Bugs, and Trees (both 2019), Hickman and Gavin have produced another worthy addition to children’s nature shelves, this one focusing on birds that can be observed in Canada and the United States. The text is accessible and graceful. Each short chapter, illustrated with Gavin’s signature, appealing watercolors, has just enough information to whet the appetite for more. Readers are unlikely to forget, for example, that baby herring gulls tap on that red spot on a parent’s beak to release the chick’s food. As in other books in the series, chapters about each season provide an organic way to introduce or flesh out such basic concepts as migration, pollination, and camouflage. Less-common concepts are also clearly explained, as in “determinate” versus “indeterminate layers.” (Yes, some birds keep replacing damaged eggs until they reach a set number.) Occasional sidebars entitled “Strange Birds” mention highly unusual behaviors of specific varieties, including the northern shrike’s impalement of edible victims on thorns to compensate for its tiny, weak feet. Other than that possibly shudder-inducing fact, the text spends most of its time on birds that eat fish, insects, and seeds. Following a formula that works, other pages devote themselves to human threats and remedies, hints for elementary bird-watching, and a craft project. (This book was reviewed digitally with 9-by-22-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.)

Excellent for fledgling naturalists. (contents, glossary, index) (Informational picture book. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews