Presents an introduction, with photographs and illustrations, to the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of birds, from eggs to adulthood.
Describes the physical characteristics, eating habits, defense behavior, and other aspects of large flightless birds both living and extinct, including ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, elephant birds, and moas.
In this twist on "The Nightingale, " Little John, despite his own poverty and grief, reaches out to Gayle, an unhappy foster child living next-door who sings beautifully and hides a great secret.