The Secret Life of Birds

by Butterfield, Moira; Mineker, Vivian

• ISBN13: 9780711266216
• ISBN10: 0711266212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-05-17
• Publisher: Happy Yak

Summary

The Secret Life of Birds is a collection of delightful stories and engaging facts, which imparts a love of birds and of nature on the next generation, inspiring them to look after the world around them.

Did you know that birds navigate by invisible pathways in the sky, that they can call to each other in thousands of different ways, and they can be as big as a car or as small as a little finger?

Let much-travelled Speedy the Swift guide you through this beautiful first guide to birdlife around the globe. Learn about nest-building and bird babies, feathers and beaks, flying journeys, bird calls, really unusual-looking birds, and ways to spot birds, and help them near where you live.

Read some beautiful bird folklore stories from around the planet, too. Speedy has learnt much on her travels and she will be a great guide for young readers, perhaps inspiring them to develop a lifelong love of birds.

Following on from The Secret of Trees and The Secret Life of Bees, Birds is the next book in the series. Sumptuous and detailed illustrations have pride of place in this magical book that mixes natural history with a splash of fantasy, creating a book to be pored over time and again.
 

Author Biography

Carly Madden loves making books that spark curiosity and imagination. She lives in Essex, England, with her husband and two children, and is most often found in the forest.

Moira Butterfield is an internationally-published children’s book author. Her work includes picture books, board books, fiction, and highly-commended non-fiction books that seek to spark a child’s imagination about our world. She studied literature and has lived in and traveled to many places across the world. She currently lives in Bath, UK, with her family, where she loves to cycle, sew, and sing. 

Vivian Mineker is a Taiwanese American from Taipei and Portland, currently working out of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her interest in art began at a young age, using drawing to express herself and her inner imaginary world. She uses watercolor, colored pencil, and digital processes to create a blend of traditional texture with a modern look and feel. She is the proud owner of a mini goldendoodle, called Darlie.

Table of Contents

Contents
Dear reader
When I was born
All about us
Fabulous feathers
How the peacock go this colors
A bird tale from India
Our survival secrets
Why the kiwi can’t fly
A bird tale from New Zealand
Brilliant beaks
Birds of the night
The wise owl of Athens
A bird tale from Greece
Busy birds everywhere
Bird music
Why the kookaburra laughs
A bird tale from Australia
Whose house is this?
Fly away, chick
Huddling-time, traveling time
Wings around the world
Birdsin balloons
A bird tale from France
Record-breaking birds
Danger call!
The children of Lir
A bird tale from Ireland
Be a friend to birds