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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Sibert Informational Book Medal, which is how I heard about it, and the Américas Book Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature.)

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Both appear almost childishly simple on the surface, and reveal layers of surprising information on repeated viewings and readings. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.”