CRAZY FOR BIRDS

Captions, coloured backgrounds, huge graphic design illustrations, this is a world of wonder and playfulness as we marvel at birds' bizarre behaviours. Quirkily illustrated, this is a charming exploration of birds and the reasons we love them. From the Common Swift which can stay in the air continuously without landing for up to ten months at a time, even sleeping on the wing, to the tiny Goldcrest, Europe's smallest bird which can lay 1½ times its body weight in eggs every season, birds are fascinating and incredible creatures. With humorous anecdotes, fascinating facts and charming illustrations, the artist Misha Blaise covers art, science and humour in her fresh and original style in her illustrated gift book with 'handwritten' headers for the Arctic Tern, a female jacana, or the male red-backed fairywren (which has a puberty-like transition around age two.) Birds of the same species have different accents based on where they are from, and some birds have even been observed making and using tools... and more. Colour illus. 208pp.