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by David Anderson (Author)
Leap! A tiny chick tumbles off a 400-foot cliff, bouncing off rocks on the way down. It's a barnacle gosling, and every one does this before it can even fly.
If your child thinks geese are just the birds that hang around the park, this book is about to change everything. Bar-headed geese cross the Himalayas at nearly 30,000 feet, almost as high as a jet plane. Snow goose flocks can hold over one million birds, so many they look like a blizzard from the ground. Goslings can recognize their mother's voice before they even hatch from the egg. Geese feel the Earth's magnetic pull like a compass built into their heads. Flying in a V lets the whole flock travel 70 percent farther than any bird flying alone. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share.
"The Nature Kid's Guide to Geese" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of the world's toughest and smartest birds. How did geese save an entire Roman city from a sneak attack in the middle of the night? Why do barnacle goslings weigh less than a tennis ball when they leap from their clifftop nest? What brought the nene back from just 30 birds to over 3,000 living wild in Hawaii today? Your child will find out, and they will never hear a honk overhead the same way again.
Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover twelve remarkable goose species from around the world, from emperor geese hunting clams on Alaskan shores to red-breasted geese nesting beside falcons on the Siberian tundra.
A book for every kid who has fed bread to a goose at the pond, with no idea it just flew in from the Arctic.
Geese have been crossing the same oceans and climbing above the same mountains for hundreds of generations. There is a good chance one is flying over your neighborhood right now. That is the kind of wonder that sticks.
Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!
