Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A spectacularly illustrated, factually accurate story of a tiny yellow warbler's migration journey as she flies thousands of miles to reach her mate. In her dazzling oil paintings, Nancy Lane creates stunning landscapes and people that illuminate Pulitzer-prize finalist Scott Weidensaul's poetic and detailed description of the warbler's perilous journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra. Together, they engage the reader's interest in a story that conveys a deep sense of the wonder and the danger of the migration journey.
Children will also discover how they can help birds like our yellow warbler by seeing how three different children and families help her along the way: a Nicaraguan family who know the bird as reinita amarilla and whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a garden in their backyard on the gulf coast to provide food for migrating birds, and a family from The Luts l K' Dene First Nation in Canada who have preserved land for all animals.
Synopsis
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With poetic language and lush oil paintings, children will
cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration
journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra.
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The warbler is helped along the way by three
different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade
coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a
garden in their backyard on the gulf coast to provide food for her, and a
family from The Luts l K' Dene First Nation in Canada who have preserved land
for all animals.
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A story of wonder and hope.
Synopsis
With poetic language and lush oil paintings, children will cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra.
The warbler is helped along the way by three
different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a
garden in their backyard on the gulf coast to provide food for her, and a
family from The Luts l K' Dene First Nation in Canada who have preserved land
for all animals.
"With its engaging story and richly detailed illustrations of one yellow warbler's epic spring migration, this book is sure to inspire and inform readers of all ages.
" -- David Sibley, author of
The Sibley Guide to Birds, What it Means to be a Bird, and many others.
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* NPR FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022
With poetic language and lush oil paintings, children will cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra.
* WINNER OF JOHN BURROUGHS ASSOCIATION RIVERBY AWARD FOR YOUNG READERS
The warbler is helped along the way by three different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a
garden in their backyard on the gulf coast to provide food for her, and a
family from The Luts l K' Dene First Nation in Canada who have preserved land
for all animals.
"With its engaging story and richly detailed illustrations of one yellow warbler's epic spring migration, this book is sure to inspire and inform readers of all ages.
"
--David Sibley, author of
The Sibley Guide to Birds, What it Means to be a Bird, and many others.