This picture reference book contains exactly 199 images of birds with their name. An essential for spotting birds and learning about these wonderful creatures.

A new eye-catching picture word book in an attractive and unusual format with detailed images to pore over and name. This book will help broaden knowledge of rare animals in the zoo environment. Vocabulary building is essential from a very young age and this series of picture word books will give children a good headstart.

This beautifuly illustrated picture word book contains 199 images of prehistoric creatures to look at and talk about. A neat and practical format, in durable board. Part of the '199 Things' series, which includes '199 Things under the sea' and '199 Animals'.

After her four kids were nearly grown and she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told she had less than a year to live. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid backyard birder, decided to spend that year traveling the world in search of birds. As it turned out, her doctors were wrong, but Phoebe's passion had been ignited and she spent the next eighteen years crisscrossing the globe recklessly staking out her quarry. En route she contracted malaria in Zambia, nearly fell to her death in Zaire, and was kidnapped and gang raped on the outskirts of Port Moresby. Yet none of this curbed her enthusiasm. By the time she died in a bus accident while birding in Madagascar in 1999, Phoebe was world renowned and had seen more species-8,500 of the roughly 10,000-than anyone in history. A fascinating portrait of a hobbiest whose obsession contributed to both her success and her demise, Life List brings Phoebe Snetsinger and the wild world of amatuer ornithology to vivid life.

Hello, World! is a series designed to help parents introduce simple nonfiction concepts to their babies and toddlers. Now even the youngest children can enjoy learning about the world around them. Told in simple terms and accompanied by bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning easy for young children and offers useful prompts to the adult reader in order to help them engage with their child on each page. Every young child loves to look up at birds in the sky. Now they can learn all about a variety of birds—with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts (“Peck, peck, peck! This noisy woodpecker is looking for food inside a tree trunk.”). It’s a perfect way to bring the outside world of natural science into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops.

Children need to add lots of words to their spoken vocabularly and this fantastic look-and-talk book will provide them with plenty of opportunities to do so. Images borrowed from Usborne's 1,000 Things...series are collected here in a compact, simplified series for younger children. Thin board will withstand constant use.