Feathered Birds by Heidi E.Y. Stemple illustrated by Clover Robin is a wonderful children's book that you and your children will love so badly.

The story inspired this book the one of mr. Frank Chapman creator of the magazine Bird-Lore, who with his originality and method, you will see, fought in every possible way, for trying to keep the environment plenty of cheerful and beautiful birds.
No sure you, but, every morning I get up with the cheerful good mornings of a lot of birds of every species and there is nothing more beauty than to see life in action through them. They are the sunniest creatures of this world. They nest, they create a special place for them and for their little "children," generally every spring; they are friendly if you will be friendly with them.
It's an important children's book this one, because it will also open the chapter of rare birds spieces, the one that can seriously risk an extinction. It's important that through their parents, children would start to appreciate the importance of taking great care of the environment where they live in and how to protect it.
For them, for the future generations and because we don't have another world to fighting for, so let's keep this one in good health.
Birds included. Too beauty for damaging them.

I insist: parents, buy a lot and a lot of children's books about nature, animals, planets, solar system to your children because it is important, crucial for them to discover who we are, what kind of world is this one, existing animals, flowers, plants, etc, for developing a good and healthy attitude, respect, education and passion for the environment.

Counting Birds is on sale on October 2! Don't miss this appointment. Illustrations are wonderful, I love the cover: I have a special passion for owls.


I thank NetGalley and Quarto for this eBook.

Anna Maria Polidori
Anna Maria Polidori a 7:44 PM

This is the delightful story of how , what is now known as the Audubon Christmas Bird Count got started. But, surprisingly enough, even thought the Audubon Society now oversees it, it wasn't started by Audubon, but rather by Frank Chapman.

This picture book tells how people used to shoot birds for fun at Christmas time, not to eat, but to see how many they could shoot.

Shooting the birds
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Frank got people interested in counting, rather than shooting, and so, there are many ways to count, including counting the owls.

Calling the owls out
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This is a wonderful book to simply explain how the bird count began, and why it is important, and fun. There is also a bit int he back with more information, for those who want to know more about Frank Chapman and the count.

Highly recommended for schools and libraries.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Counting Birds is a new non-fiction title by Heidi Stemple. Due out 2nd Oct, 2018, it's 32 pages and available in hardcover. Aimed at younger readers (ages 6-8ish), it would make a really nice read along for younger children as well.

Beautifully illustrated by Clover Robin, the artwork is mixed media painted collage and does a lovely job of enhancing the text. The book is based around the life and early bird counts started by Frank Chapman which grew into the Audubon Christmas bird count.

It's so important to include young people in learning about our world and wise stewardship of our environment. This book would make really good support material for a classroom unit on conservation and birding.

It's a really worthwhile and appealing book. I loved the detail in the drawings.

Five stars.