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The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
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Product Description
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: #49457 in Books
- Brand: Peterson Books
- Published on: 2008-04-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .78 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780547119342
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Bill Thompson 111 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.
Customer Reviews
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!!!!
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!
Perfect for a youngster
My five year old is fascinated with birds, and this book is perfect. He like to be read from it every night, marks the birds he sees, and spend time looking through the pictures and maps.
