The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Cate, Annette LeBlanc

Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard

64 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4561-8 $15.99

(1) 4-6 The book starts by encouraging children to sharpen their awareness of their surroundings and to notice the presence of birds in pastoral and urban settings. Next are the basics of bird identification, then it's on to habitat, range, and migration. The discussion is lighthearted; Cate and the birds, portrayed in illustrations with speech balloons, poke fun at themselves as they teach bird observation. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Devon Johnson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2013