The Real Poop on Pigeons!: TOON Level 1 (Giggle and Learn) - Hardcover

McCloskey, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935179934 ISBN 13: 9781935179931

Verlag: TOON Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Did you know a pigeon can fly faster than a car and farther than a small airplane? Or that they have something unusual in common with penguins, flamingos, and even the dodo? With his trademark mix of humor, well-researched facts, and artistry, Kevin McCloskey delivers the straight poop on these humble creatures, which turn out to be...coo, coo, COOL! Kevin McCloskey, who te Did you know a pigeon can fly faster than a car and farther than a small airplane? Or that they have something unusual in common with penguins, flamingos, and even the dodo? With his trademark mix of humor, well-researched facts, and artistry, Kevin McCloskey delivers the straight poop on these humble creatures, which turn out to be...coo, coo, COOL! Kevin McCloskey, who teaches illustration at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, learned about pigeons from Vinnie Torre, one of Hobokens last pigeon racers. He dedicated this book to his children, even if his daughter is a little skittish on the subject since a flock of pigeons descended on the family during a visit to Londons Trafalgar Square. He says he considered painting the pictures here on roofing material (because pigeons flock to roofs) but settled instead for painting on a pigeon-blue Fabriano paper, the kind used by Picasso.

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Críticas

Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2017 Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" 2016 Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices 2017: Science, Technology, and the Natural World "Budding naturalists who dug We Dig Worms! will, well, coo over this similarly enlightening accolade . . . Another feather in McCloskey's cap." - Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW ". . . smoothly mixing naturalism with offbeat visual humor." - Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "Funny and informative, this attractive work of graphic nonfiction offers emerging comics readers an intriguing look at a commonly dismissed and ignored animal." - School Library Journal "A playful and informative take on the ubiquitous, under-appreciated pigeon." - Booklist "This paean to the worm is a winning combination of facts and gross-out fun." - New York Times "Delivered with a sense of gusto and humor." - Comics Worth Reading "This 36-page book for first readers teaches humorous and fascinating facts about those cooing birds that every child sees almost every day." - Fred Patten Reviews

Reseña del editor

Both educational and laugh-out-loud entertaining for young children. Doubles as a read aloud book with toddlers and a book young children can begin to read on their own. Excellent life science resource for children: Our book features details that teach about pigeon biology and environmental importance. After more than twenty years as an editor at The New Yorker, TOON publisher and editorial director Francoise Mouly knows how important good writing and fact-checking are. TOON Books hires copy editors and fact checkers to give all our books a once-over that is up to New Yorker standards. The perfect addition to STEM, Animal Life, and Informational Text classroom library collections for Grades K-2. Multicultural characters are represented in the story. Accompanying TOON into Reading CCSS-Aligned Lesson Plan and Activity Sheet (free download).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TOON Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1935179934
• ISBN 13: 9781935179931
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40