The Big Bird Search Book

by Erik van Bemmel

Overview

A colorful seek-and-find book about the nature around us. For bird lovers ages 5 years and up.

Nature is more fun when you know more about it! In this book, you’ll discover over a hundred birds from around the world. Are you good at playing I spy? Then you’ll have a blast with this book!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605377421
Publisher:	Clavis
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.20(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

About the Author

Erik van Bemmel (1985) is a dutchman born in Nairobi, Kenia. Nowadays he’s living in Amsterdam. After working for 8 years as a marketer, he has recently quit his job to fully focus on photography. In May 2016 he graduated ‘cum laude’ at the Fotovakschool and is selected as New Dutch Photography Talent 2016 and is nominated for the Keep An Eye Award. His style can best be described as conceptual and documentary photography at the edge of society. With his photo’s he wants to tell stories and seduce people to think beyond the visual they’re looking at.

Editorial Reviews

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From the Publisher

2022-01-25
Originally published in Belgium and the Netherlands, this seek-and-find board book invites children to learn about different bird species and their habitats.

This uncredited translation from the Dutch opens with a two-page annotated illustration presenting disparate facts about birds, such as “robins become aggressive when they see the color red,” and “a stonechat can fly more than 1,000 km (621 miles) a day during migration.” Most of the featured birds are common to Eurasia. Every subsequent double-page spread depicts a different hyperstylized habitat—the woods, the seaside, a marsh, a city, and more—and includes a pictorial legend of birds that appear in the busy illustrations, waiting for readers to find them. The birds in the artwork are the same sizes as their duplicates in the legends—easier to spot perhaps but utterly out of scale with the people, trees, human-made structures, and each other. On every verso page is a smattering of additional avian facts and elusive nonbird elements for kids to find in the crowded landscapes. The illustrations abound with minute details that will pique children’s curiosity, from wind turbines to a blimp. Intended for elementary-aged readers, this title will appeal to kids who enjoy picture puzzles. But the overly rendered digital illustrations fail to integrate the birds naturalistically into the habitats, making the whole enterprise oddly unfulfilling. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Marginal given the Eurocentric fauna and static banality of the illustrations. (Board book. 4-6)

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