A lovely look at a beautiful part of nature. Readers should note that this book covers only one of over 300 species of the bird people who live in other parts of the country and world will see differences in their hummingbirds. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Verdict: Beautiful bright watercolors are enhanced by gold ink in the hummingbird’s vibrant feathers. Read reviews and buy Hummingbird - by Nicola Davies (Hardcover) at Target. Useful are the map delineating migration patterns of the bird and notes about them. Hummingbird by Davies, Nicola Genre: Science, Juvenile Nonfiction Topic: Social Topics / Emigration & Immigration, People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America. When the lonely girl finds the shell of a hummingbird egg in the grass of Central Park, she mails it to Granny, using the hummingbird to create a bond between the two of them. The warm relationship between the young girl and the elder woman is first shown as the girl is told to “keep still” so that the birds will drink from the bowls of water in their hands. P7Q8Ī zoologist traces the migration of the ruby-throated hummingbird in both a short story as a girl leaves her Latina grandmother to travel to New York City and factual information about the tiny bird that weighs the same as a nickel.
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