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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Only, instead of a group of children going on scientific adventures with their teacher, a band of five young bluebirds go on bird watching adventures on their own.

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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. There are many ways in which a birder can enjoy the art of Charley Harper these days.