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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). Special nesting boxes are built in the wild, a wild chick damages its wing in the nest, (it is rebuilt).

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

10,000 Birds

I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born. The text is light on whimsey, but Harper doesn’t shy away from irony.