I found a dead bird: a guide to the cycle of life and death

Intelligent, sensitive and wide-ranging. It will be widely read by children and provoke plenty of discussion. -I found a dead bird. It made me sad...but I also had a lot of questions, like: Why did it have to die? How did it die? What would happen to it now that it was dead?

These questions, and many others, are tackled in this multi-award winning book by acclaimed Canadian author Jan Thornhill, who was inspired to write it when she discovered the body of a beautiful ruby-throated hummingbird. It is an intelligent, sensitive and wide-ranging book about death and the cycle of life.

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Subject(s)Science
Author(s)Jan Thornhill
Age5-7, 7-11
Published2013
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Shelf reference372.355 THO
ISN/ISBN9781445119601
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8utr

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