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Faith
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Posted: April 02 2005 at 6:43am \| IP Logged

Hi all, I have been reading this book aloud to my just-about-to-turn-ten yo and my 6 yo (and sometimes the 3.5 yo listens in.) I got the book from Tanglewood but it is published by Dover. My older kids (14 and 12 yos) went through an intense Thornton Burgess period when they were younger. We had the Peter Rabbit on tape book from Dover and I read the Mother West Wind book aloud to them. I think we read other books from the series which we got from the library. Anyway, then I had sort of forgotten about them and hadn't read them again to the younger set. (an aside: does anyone else go through this where you realize that older children got something that you didn't get around to doing with the younger ones?)

Well, right now we are into birds. This book is great in that the descriptions of birds are so accurate. I am pairing it with Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds. One thing we noticed was that Burgess called a particular sparrow an "English" sparrow but from the description and using Peterson's as a guide, it must be what they call the House Sparrow, which is non-native to our country. Anyway, it has been much fun. We are really looking at birds lately. We saw a Kingfisher when we went to a local garden/park on Tuesday. We've also seen a pair of bluebirds in our backyard. And yesterday we saw two Great Blue Herons in the pond behind our house. Of course this is in addition to the regular spotting of Chickadees, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Mockingbirds, crows, Turkey Buzzards, Canada geese and Red-tail hawks we see every day. (or practically every day.)

I just wanted to put a plug in for the Burgest Bird Book for teaching identification of birds in a narrative fashion.

Natalia
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Posted: April 03 2005 at 9:05pm \| IP Logged

Hi Faith!

I credit the BBBC with the interest we have develop for birds this year. I read it aloud to my 7 yob and every time we finish a chapter we google the bird and now we have quite a collection of birds that we have to organize into some kind of book. It was a great read and Alex enjoyed tremendously.

Natalia

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