Product details
- ISBN 9780746074527
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 158 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Which bird lays the biggest egg in the world and how do tiny chicks learn to fly? Beginner readers can find answers to these questions and more in this colourful information book. Illustrated with fabulous photos and artwork. Easy-to-read text specially written with the help of a reading expert. Internet links to carefully selected websites with pictures, information and activities.
Chapters in this book include:
- Parents and chicks
- Building a nest
- Unusual nests
- Laying eggs
- Keeping warm
- Inside an egg
- Hatching
- In the nest
- Cuckoo chicks
- Dinnertime
- First flight
- Good parents
- Growing up
- Different eggs
Fiona Patchett grew up in Yorkshire and studied history at university. She has lived in Italy and San Francsico, but now lives in London. She has written many children's books, on subjects as diverse as stargazing, history and baking. She loves cooking and spends hours testing recipes for fairy cakes.
