birds

Presents the author's choices for birds with which boys and girls under five should be familiar.

Clear-cut explanations, diagrams, and photos help readers follow along with these activities, allowing them to develop the abilities they need to complete future projects of their own. In this book, learn how to build birdhouses with these fun activities.

An overview to common folds and origami techniques will introduce readers to the art of paper folding before they begin creating swans, doves, and butterflies out of colored paper. Full-color photographs of each delicate creature further draw readers in while they learn about each in accompanying fact boxes.

Describes how penguins exist together in rookeries.

Contains poems about birds, complemented by color photographs.

In 2083, orphan Shama Katooee, who has just stolen an expensive pet bird, is mysteriously selected to attend the elite Chronos Academy to be trained in the practice of TimeWatch, although she has no idea how or why she has been given this honor.

Profiles twenty-six bird species, including photographs and information on diet, length, weight, wingspan, range, nesting site, and behaviors.

A watercolor-illustrated collection of haiku in which the author describes the characteristics of over twenty common North American birds.

Presents one hundred illustrated topic panels, each with ten key facts about birds, covering how birds live, perching birds, owls and birds of prey, water and wading birds, game and ground birds, and woodland and forest birds.

Discusses why certain bird species are endangered and examines such examples as the snail kite, piping plover, and whooping crane.