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K-3Start to Finish series.
Four- to five-sentence "chapters" follow chicks from egg to adulthood, briefly touching on behavior and diet in addition to development. Each right-hand page provides a full-color photograph of chicks with their parents, in action alone or with other birds. Oddly, the stock photos in each book show a wide variety of owl and penguin species, which readers may find confusing. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Start to Finish titles: From Egg to Owl and From Egg to Penguin.