As nature enthusiast Barry Lopez notes: "Birds tug at the mind and heart with a strange intensity." Yet few of us get a chance to see them up-close and personal, and unless we have a birder in the family, we may not know much about them.
Do you know which bird can run 44 mph? What color are flamingoes? What kind of bird uses its small beak to get seeds out of flowers? The answers to these questions are in this creative oversized children's picture book by Francesco Pittau and Bernadette Gervais who have created more than 40 books together.
Aimed at children from 4 through 8 years of age, Birds of a Feather contains 40 lift-the-flaps and more than 15 pop-ups making this reading experience a very tactile and interactive one. When you get to the double-page spread of eggs, each bird under a flap stands at attention as you read about it. There is also a spread where you can create birds by matching strips of their body parts. After you have finished interacting with this book, you will have learned about 40 birds. Consider yourself lucky to have made their acquaintance.
