Turkey vultures soar on the balmy air, looking for their next stinky feast. These birds don't hunt--they like their food to be already dead, and their eating habits serve a very important ecological role. Vultures are part of nature's clean-up crew. In her signature poetic, energetic style, acclaimed nature writer April Pulley Sayre introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture. The gorgeous illustrations by Caldecott Honor-winning artist Steve Jenkins capture these birds in all their surprising majesty. ...
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Turkey vultures soar on the balmy air, looking for their next stinky feast. These birds don't hunt--they like their food to be already dead, and their eating habits serve a very important ecological role. Vultures are part of nature's clean-up crew. In her signature poetic, energetic style, acclaimed nature writer April Pulley Sayre introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture. The gorgeous illustrations by Caldecott Honor-winning artist Steve Jenkins capture these birds in all their surprising majesty. Vulture View is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Edition:
First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Published:
2007
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16950604578
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Seller's Description:
New York, Henry Holt and Co, 2007, hardcover children's picture book (10" x 10"), 32 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Near Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to bottom corners. Dustjacket, as new and unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine cover. The award-winning children's non-fiction and science author of Home at Last, Hush Little Puppy and Army Ant Parade presents a surprisingly sympathetic view of an unconventionally majestic bird, the Turkey Vulture. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color by Steve Jenkins. ISBN â9780805075571.
