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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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ISBN-13:	9780823433339
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	01/23/2015
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	46 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Lizzy Rockwell is the daughter of highly acclaimed children's book author and illustrator Anne Rockwell and art director and illustrator Harlow Rockwell. She has illustrated more than thirty children's books, including some in collaboration with her mother, and has written and illustrated several of her own, including Plants Feed Me and A Mammal is an Animal. She lives in Connecticut. Find her online at https://www.lizzyrockwell.com/

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Editorial Reviews

03/09/2015
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. (May)

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"Lively but minimal text with short sentences and a rhythmic pattern make this valuable both as a read-aloud and as an option for budding readers. Rockwell's bright, eye-catching images, rendered in gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil, add to the appeal."—School Library Journal

"The full-page pictures and minimal text are just right for young readers, but older children will enjoy learning the names of the multitude of birds inhabiting the scenes, ensuring that this book will go far with new readers and budding birders."—Booklist

"Simple and straightforward, just right for preschool listeners. But it has the added attraction of accurate, full-page or double-page–spread illustrations of more than 40 species of birds, labeled and shown in typical habitats. . . . Widely useful, this should be a welcome addition to the nature shelf." —Kirkus Reviews

"Rockwell walks readers through the characteristics that make birds, well, birds, accompanied by vivid, mixed-media portraits of dozens of avian specimens. . . . 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. —Publishers Weekly

"Detailed, captioned illustrations in gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil support and extend the text by showing selected birds from around the world"—The Horn Book

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03/01/2015
PreS-Gr 1—Rockwell answers a common question: What characteristics set birds apart from other animals? It's not just having a beak or wings or laying eggs that makes an animal a bird, she explains. Rather, it's feathers—whether colorful or dull, outstanding or camouflaged—that are the key trait. The book includes both common and lesser-known types of birds from around the world as examples, such as the Andean condor, the rock pigeon, and the toucan. Each illustration is labeled and, where pertinent, identified as male or female. Lively but minimal text with short sentences and a rhythmic pattern make this valuable both as a read-aloud and as an option for budding readers. Rockwell's bright, eye-catching images, rendered in gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil, add to the appeal. VERDICT This attractive and informative title is a great addition to school and public libraries and a strong option for curriculum-related studies of nature for the very young.—Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, formerly at Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY

School Library Journal

2015-02-03
Birds have beaks and wings and begin as eggs, like some other animals, but only a bird has feathers.A step up from Susan Stockdale's Bring on the Birds (2011), this is similarly simple and straightforward, just right for preschool listeners. But it has the added attraction of accurate, full-page or double-page-spread illustrations of more than 40 species of birds, labeled and shown in typical habitats. From common ostriches and a superb starling facing each other on an east African savannah to the rock pigeon standing on one foot on an urban windowsill, these examples range widely in size, appearance, habits and familiarity. A song sparrow graces the title page, and there are two varieties of domestic chickens, but there are also exotic birds such as the resplendent quetzal and toco toucan. Short, declarative sentences explain some uses of beaks and wings. A blue-headed parrot picks fruit; a pileated woodpecker pecks at a tree; an Andean condor soars, and king penguins swim. "But wait!" the author says, and she cites examples of animals with beaks, wings and eggs that aren't birds: platypus, housefly, milk snake. Only birds have feathers (handsomely displayed on a male peacock). Feathers help a bird stand out or blend in, fly, and stay warm and dry—and make a bird a bird, in a nicely child-friendly summation. Widely useful, this should be a welcome addition to the nature shelf. (Informational picture book. 3-7)

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