Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying (The Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series)

by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Sally Soweol Han (Illustrator)

Overview

From the swooping bat to the buzzing honeybee, kids will delight in learning about the many wondrous wings of our world in this nonfiction picture book guessing game from critically acclaimed creators Rebecca E. Hirsch and Sally Soweol Han

Wings can soar and wings can skim.
Wings can hover, hum, and swim.
Small wings, big wings, near and far.
Can you guess whose wings these are?

Some wings make music, some wings move too fast to see, and some wings carry people all over the world. Can you guess who these wings belong to?

Learn about the wonderous world of wings through rhyming riddles that will encourage little readers to guess along with every page turn. From hummingbirds to pterosaurs, honeybees to maple seeds—each pair of wings is unique, and each gets its due in this delightful nonfiction picture book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419769252
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/15/2025
Series:	Nature Riddles and Rhymes
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rebecca E. Hirsch is the award-winning author of over 80 books for young readers. A plant biologist by training, Hirsch enjoys sharing her love of science and inviting children to discover the natural world. She lives in a college town in the mountains of Pennsylvania, where she writes, grows gardens, bakes bread, tends a small flock of chickens, and goes for long walks in the woods with her dog. Sally Soweol Han’s passion lies in portraying poetic and lyrical narratives, allowing her to construct a visual language and push the boundaries of her imagination. She is dedicated to illustrating picture books, with the hope to bring warmth and joy to readers of all age groups.

Editorial Reviews

"The art is infused with warmth and detail that perfectly complements the playful tone and bouncing rhymes, and the combination is sure to make for a particularly pleasing real-aloud...An exceptionally entertaining exploration of all winged things."

Booklist

"Soaring rhymes celebrate wings of many sorts as an equally diverse cast of bright-eyed young children look on...A nicely balanced combination of guessing game and scientific facts."

Kirkus Reviews

"Readers get immersed in the quiet world...A creative and enlightening book."

School Library Journal

"Soaring rhymes celebrate wings of many sorts as an equally diverse cast of bright-eyed young children look on...A nicely balanced combination of guessing game and scientific facts."—Kirkus Reviews

"The art is infused with warmth and detail that perfectly complements the playful tone and bouncing rhymes, and the combination is sure to make for a particularly pleasing real-aloud...An exceptionally entertaining exploration of all winged things."—Booklist

"Readers get immersed in the quiet world...A creative and enlightening book."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2025-01-18
Soaring rhymes celebrate wings of many sorts as an equally diverse cast of bright-eyed young children look on.

“Small wings, big wings, near and far. / Can you guess whose wings these are?” Offering tantalizing hints about each example until a page turn reveals the answer, Hirsch writes of honeybees and katydids, hummingbirds and mallards—but also expands her topic well beyond bugs and birds to encompass winged things from maple seeds to pterosaurs and jet planes. As she explains in a substantial afterword, each uses wings in distinctive ways. Penguin chicks don’t fly, for instance, but steer with their flippers as they toboggan down ice slopes on their bellies, and butterflies flap in a figure-eight pattern, clapping their wings to create a propulsive puff of air. Individual readers and listening audiences alike will come away understanding the structural differences between the wings of bats and birds, not to mention how lift can be created by both wing curvature and by the “tiny tornado” that forms over the flat surface of a maple “whirlybird.” Han mixes brightly hued close-ups of flora and fauna with views of small children immersed in peaceful natural settings, being strapped into their seats, or, in one fetching scene, donning wings themselves to flit cheerily about.

A nicely balanced combination of guessing game and scientific facts. (selected sources)(Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews