Detailed illustrations enhance a comprehensive guide to birds featuring more than twenty-five activities that help young readers learn how humans affect the lives of birds, how birds influence humans, their migration patterns, and more.

Gorgeous illustrations and a unique layout encourage the reader to make observations in a forest, at the edge of a salt marsh, on sand dunes, and on the beach. This transect approach provides an interesting perspective. Fold-out pages list the ecosystem inhabitants, and the reader can search the illustration for each plant, animal, or item. Picture keys at the back of the book allow the reader to identify the ecosystem inhabitants.

From Library Journal: Shorebirds (sandpipers, plovers, and their kin) are found throughout the world, mostly in wetlands, as implied by their name, but sometimes also in forests, grasslands, and even deserts. Many shorebirds have cryptic color patterns that make identification difficult, even to experienced birders. This photographic catalog of the group won't solve all identification problems, but it will help. All 212 living species are described in full detail and all but a few extreme rarities are depicted in about 700 color photographs.

Through charming illustrations and rhyming verse, readers follow a toy sailboat on its journey from brook to river to sea. Along the way, the boat passes by a variety of habitats and creatures, from beetles to bears to bullfrogs.