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K-3
Zoom In on Backyard Animals series.
This basic introduction to the common backyard bird offers cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. Simple, choppy text for emergent readers is adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. The appended "Quick Stats" section offers oddly conceived size comparisons: "a cardinal is not quite as long as a basketball." Glos., ind.
40 pp.
| Candlewick
| September, 2017
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TradeISBN 978-0-7636-7733-6$17.99
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K-3
Cardinals Red and Lulu love their evergreen-tree home in the country. When the tree is cut down (with Lulu still in it), Red follows the delivery truck to New York City. He finds his home--transformed into that year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree--and is joyously reunited with Lulu. Realistic watercolor and gouache paintings make the most of dramatic birds'-eye perspectives.
Reviewer: Lolly Robinson
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2017
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K-3
Pebble Plus: Backyard Birds series.
Very simple, declarative sentences present basic information about these common birds (physical description, habitat, diet, nesting habits, etc.) and encourage aspiring birdwatchers to "look for [them] in your backyard!" Full-color, close-up action photographs of the birds are the real standouts in the otherwise slight volumes. A habitat map and two or three Common Core–related questions are appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Pebble Plus: Backyard Birds titles: American Crows, Cardinals, Hummingbirds, and Robins.