Product Description

A new Peterson Field Guide to 200 of the most common and interesting birds in eastern North America, written especially for kids ages eight to twelve.

Increasingly popular among all ages, birding is an especially popular family friendly activity. This fun and lively guide provides just the right amount of information for kids who have an interest in birds and want to learn more. Each of the 200 species is described on a full page packed with information and written in an engaging style."Wow!" bursts contain particularly interesting facts about each bird. Range maps are easy to read and each one includes a key, so that small hands won't have to flip again and again to the front or back of the book. There is even a space for young birders to check off birds they have spotted and the date the species was seen. Color photographs are used for identification purposes, and black-and-white line drawings by Julie Zickefoose illustrate interesting behaviors or characteristics.

A birder since childhood, Thompson says he would have loved a book like this one when he was just getting interested in birds. Now a father of two, he spent many hours over a two-year period with his now eleven-year-old daughter's class getting their advice on what to include in the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170892 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest, a bimonthly magazine with 70,000 subscribers and the author of Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges. He lives with his wife, author and illustrator Julie Zickefoose and their two children on eighty birdy acres in Ohio.

Julie Zickefoose began her career as a field biologist for the Nature
Conservancy. She became a magazine and book illustrator, then
began to illustrate her own stories, gleaned from experiences with
wild birds and animals. Her monthly commentaries bring a glimpse
of Appalachia to NPR's All Things Considered. Bird Watcher's Digest
has published more than forty of her articles and seventeen cover
paintings since 1986.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!!!
This is a great bird book for youngsters. It has excellent pictures, wonderful illustrations, and perfect age appropriate descriptions. Give this to your children and extend the life of your own bird books! My twin 4+ year olds love it and read it constantly on car rides. They have become especially fond of using the space provide for recording what species they have seen and where. They did realize there were species missing (the book covers the 200 most common) but understand why and have yet to see much that is not found in "their" bird book.
I highly recommend this book!

Great for Kids and Adults
My son is 6 and we read this book together. The "gross" facts make it interesting for kids, especially boys. Even adults can learn from this book. It gives incentive for kids to get OUTSIDE!!!!