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Book of flight : 10 record-breaking animals with wings
- Author
- Balkan, Gabrielle, author.
- Title
- Book of flight : 10 record-breaking animals with wings / by Gabrielle Balkan ; illustrated by Sam Brewster.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Phaidon Press, [2019] ©2019
- Description
- 48 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm
- Other contributors
- Brewster, Sam, illustrator.
- Contents
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- About flying
- The fastest flyer
- The most unpredictable flyer
- The best flying acrobat
- The strongest flyer
- The best at hovering
- The best at gliding
- The best at flying backwards
- The best at parachuting
- The highest flyer
- The lowest flyer
- A special flyer
- A letter from the author
- Glossary.
- Summary
- A stunning world-records book of animal flight, by the author-and-illustrator team behind the bestselling Book of Bones! Meet ten fascinating flyers through a series of superlatives - and guess who's who while learning about airborne animals. From the fastest (white-throated needletail) to the most acrobatic (flying fox bat), and from the best glider (colugo) to the best backward flyer (hummingbird), each master of flight is cleverly depicted in a blueprint-inspired diagram, accompanied by playful, informative text. The stunning page-turn reveal features a full-colour illustration and an explanation of what makes each animal's way of flying so special.
- Target audience
- Age 5-8.
- Subject headings
- Animal flight--Juvenile literature. Animals--Juvenile literature. Wings (Anatomy)--Juvenile literature. Flight--Juvenile literature.
- Genre heading
- Trivia and miscellanea. Picture books. Instructional and educational works. Juvenile works. Instructional and educational works. Picture books. Trivia and miscellanea.
- ISBN
- 9780714878683 0714878685 9780714878638 (hbk.) 0714878634 (hbk.)