Nature Guide: Birds: The World in Your Hands

What a great book! My daughter picked this book as a bday donation for her school library. She got to keep it for 2 wks and literally read it everyday. The pages are nice, glossy, clear, the photos are gorgeous! The size of the book is a hair bigger than a 5x7 photo. She just loves using the index & looking up different species of birds & then finding them in the book to learn about them. We love that they're broken out according to type of birds, like birds of prey for example. She likes the beginning section pages that give a quick summary of the section, for example she'll say "Mom did you know there is 47 species of toucan's?!" That's not an actual fact, I'm generalizing, but she likes to read about the specific qualities of the grouping of birds she's reading about. She has read this book several pages at a time every single day for 2 wks. It is written for an adult, but not too grown up that it's impossible for her to read. The only words she has trouble with are the class/species type words that are tough and a random word in between that she's unfamiliar with.

I'd seen a copy of this book in my local public library, so I was able to determine that it adequately covered the subject before I purchased it. I was pleased that it surveyed birds found worldwide, not only in North America. Also, I knew of David Burnie from other books he'd written, so I was confident in the accuracy of this guide. And, as with all DK titles, it is profusely illustrated. The only fault I can cite is that it doesn't list all families of the orders covered.

My stepdaughter absolutely loves this book

This is a great book with some awesome photos. My five year old is in love with all birds and we checked this out at the library and we had to have it for our collection. She we bought it for Christmas and she carried it around for weeks showing us all the different birds. My 17 year old seemed to like it as well.

My preschooler was exposed to this book at his school and asked me to buy him his own copy. It's not at all a book geared to kids, but he loves the large pictures and enjoys listening to the descriptions. The book is well organized and concise - it's one of the better general bird guides I have seen.

Great pictures. Book is easy to use. My son (7years) loves looking at it. Text is advanced for him, but he still loves it.

My son loves this book . Very well written

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Excelente guía, buenas fotos y descripción!

Todo perfecto, llegó antes de lo estimado. Graciassss