Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Look up! : bird-watching in your own backyard / Annette LeBlanc Cate ; editor, Andrea Tompa ; book designer, Pam Consolazio.

Edition:

First edition ; reinforced trade edition.

Publisher, Date:

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2013]

Description:

51, [3] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 x 24 cm

Summary:

A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.

Target Audience Note:

Elementary grade.

Subjects:

Bird watching -- Juvenile literature.

Birds -- Identification -- Juvenile literature.

Drawing -- Technique -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Tompa, Andrea, editor.

Consolazio, Pamela A., book designer.

Candlewick Press, publisher.

Notes:

"A Junior Literary Guild Selection."

Includes text and illustrations on endsheets.

" ... Andrea Tompa and Pam Consolazio (the editor and designer of this book) ..."--Page 3 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 52) and index.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.3 4 Quiz: 60167.

Robert F. Sibert Honor book, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction -- A great place to start -- A rainbow of color -- Shapes are clues -- What are they up to? -- Note the fine details -- Feathers 'n' such -- Listen closely -- Time for a field guide! -- The power of observation -- Where birds are at : habitat -- Home in the range -- To you it's vacation ; to us it's migration! -- Off you go to classification class! -- Bibliography -- Index.

Web Site:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

2012942416

ISBN:

9780763645618

0763645613

Other Number:

810317998

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

355127

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j 598.072 Cate