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    About Birds: A Guide for Children
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    About Birds: A Guide for Children

    By Cathryn Sill and John Sill

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    About this ebook

    An award-winning, educator-approved first book on birds. From Cathryn and John Sill, creators of the celebrated About… and About Habitats series.

    ★ “Exceptionally detailed and uniformly accurate…the Sills succeed admirably.” ―School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

    In this simple volume, former educator and author Cathryn Sill uses clear, easy-to-understand language to teach children what birds are, what they do, and how they live.

    Noted wildlife illustrator John Sill provides beautifully detailed, realistic paintings to showcase the birds’ diverse and natural worlds, and an afterword inspires further learning.

    About Birds is part of the Sills’ award-winning About… series, ideal for casual exploration as well as for preschool and elementary science and animal life units.

    Awards:

    NSTA Recommends ―National Science Teachers Association
    CCBC Choices (The Natural World) ―Cooperative Children’s Book Center

    Also available in a Spanish/English bilingual edition! About Birds/Sobre los pájaros

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeachtree Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781682630822
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      I enjoyed the book About Birds by Cathryn Sill. Even though this book is very simple I actually learned things I hadn't known from it. One reason I liked this book is its simplicity, it offered short sentences meant to enlighten. “Some birds build nests on the ground.” This was something I hadn't known and the simple sentence made it easy to take the information in. This book also labeled each bird it was talking about. Another reason I enjoyed this book were the detailed illustrations of various birds in their habitat. Although the sentences and facts were short the pictures were large and detailed. It allowed us to see the “Ovenbird” in its natural habitat of leaves and wood brush as it builds its nest on the ground. I really enjoyed the idea of a bird nest on the ground it fascinated me. The main idea for this book is to inform as it is an informational text.