parrots

Briefly explores what it is like to have a parakeet for a pet, discussing their basic care needs and unique features--such as their colorful feathers and high level of intelligence. Includes photographs and a glossary.

Simple text and color photographs depict the physical traits, behavior, and rain forest habitat of parrots. Includes a search-and-find activity.

Ricky takes his pet parrot Buster to school.

Ricky takes his pet parrot Buster to school.

Papagayo, the noisy parrot, helps the night animals save the moon from being eaten up by the moon dog.

Did you know that there are at least 17 different species of macaws? The largest, the hyacinth macaw, can weigh almost as much as two pineapples. Find out more about the macaw in this book.

"[This book] reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other, and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, [it] is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself"--Dust jacket.

Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Parrots, emergent readers learn how parrots fly, eat, and live in the rain forest. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Parrots includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions. Parrots is part of Jump!'s My First Animal Books series.

Young readers may touch various surfaces on parrots that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears.

"Meet the amazing talking parrot. This book explores the different habitats of parrots, their colorful feathers, what sounds they make, and much more. A folk talk explains why some parrots copy what people say"--Provided by publisher.