A Bird Is a Bird
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
What is a bird? And how is it different from a mammal or a reptile?
Some birds are huge and some are tiny. Some birds are fantastically colorful and some are plain. But what do all birds share? Early nonfiction expert Lizzy Rockwell explains that birds have beaks, wings, and feathers, and hatch from eggs. Other animals might have some of these features in common, but only a bird has them all.
Only a bird is a bird!
A clear text and beautiful illustrations cover dozens of different birds and their shared characteristics, as well as the unique qualities of unusual birds, such as penguins and peacocks.
A great companion to Rockwell's A Mammal is an Animal.
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Rockwell walks readers through the characteristics that make birds, well, birds, accompanied by vivid, mixed-media portraits of dozens of avian specimens. After explaining that birds have beaks and wings ("Wings flap and glide. Wings help swim and dive"), and that they emerge from eggs, she concludes by covering the trait that separates them from platypuses, flies, and snakes (which have beaks, wings, and emerge from eggs, respectively): feathers. Direct writing and handsome labeled images of birds in their native environments (egrets and spoonbills hunt in shallow water, an owl and whip-poor-will appear camouflaged against tree bark) clearly demonstrate their breadth and diversity. Ages 3 7.
