For a mother to teach her son to drive is perhaps not so unusual, but for her to teach him to fly? Given that the year was 1911, that was most likely a first. B

Janie prays for the opportunity to see the offspring of an unusual bird whose babies often move to a new location after hatching from their eggs.

"In 1979 the black robin of the Chatham Islands was on the brink of extinction, with only five birds left. When the Wildlife Service intervened to rescue them i

Uses simple story narratives to introduce a variety of birds.