Did
You Know
Reviewed by Caitlin O'Neil
Famous Australian Birds.
By Gisela Kaplan, Allen and Unwin, Melbourne, $29.95
Did you know… that a tawny frogmouth can regrow his/her tongue?
That a cockatoo can live for up to one-hundred years?
That male emus incubate the female’s eggs?
These are just some of the facts that continued to amaze me when I read this non-fiction book.
It includes information on cockatoos, magpies, tawny frogmouths, lyrebirds and more.
It
would be a really great book for a school project or really anything else that
you need information on birds for.
It includes about 10 pictures of each bird featured in the book and true stories about young (and old) birds that the author has rescued and met.
It has a fact file on each bird and large chart in the back including information like the weight, size and lifespan of each bird. It also includes an index and glossary back.
Its weak point is that it could provide more information on rosellas, but I overlook that. I rate it 9/10.
Caitlin O’Neil is a year 5 student at Clifton Hill (Gold St) Primary School in Melbourne. She has just had her 10th birthday.