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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). The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched. SeaGrove Press, July 2013. A second aviary is created. by Carol L.

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

10,000 Birds

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. A tradition was born.