All About Turkeys [Hardcover]

Jim Arnosky (Author)

Book Description

The wild turkey is a uniquely American animal. With his clear, informative text and detailed watercolors, Arnosky explores the turkey's life cycle, habitat, and behavior with an immediacy kids love. Full color.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-This handsome, information-packed book details the life and habits of the wild turkey, including what it eats, how it raises its young, and where it is found. At first glance, the full-page watercolors and brief text suggest that the book was designed for preschoolers. However, although the facts are presented clearly and succinctly, the somewhat sophisticated vocabulary makes it better suited to slightly older children. Inserts of text and pictures provide detail on each topic. Many of the illustrations are actual-size representations, so readers can get a precise idea of just how big a turkey's egg or footprint really is. The lack of an index and glossary may pose a slight problem, but the text is well organized and finding the required facts should not be too difficult. This will best serve the needs of children seeking information for reports, but the eye-catching art and informative text should draw its share of casual readers as well.
Arwen Marshall, New York Public Library
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Ages 6^-9. In the latest addition to the All About series, Arnosky talks turkey--wild turkey. Double-page spreads fill the pages with pictures of turkeys moving about in their habitats; details of head, feet, and feathers; and a North American map showing their range. The "read aloud" text concerning the bird's appearance and habits appears in fairly large print, and more detailed information relating to pictures appears in smaller type, as long captions. As in Arnosky's other books, the attractive watercolor paintings give young children plenty to observe as the informative text is read. A good resource for libraries. Carolyn Phelan

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic; 1 edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590481479
• ISBN-13: 978-0590481472
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,912,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE, February 23, 2007

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Dawn Dellarocco (SHELTON, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All About Turkeys (Hardcover)

I bought this book for my niece and nephew about 2 years ago and upon reading it myself, I found it to be educational, interesting, and informative. I learned a lot myself about these great birds. My sister even liked it a lot, and the kids loved the illustrations. I even thought that they were great. This would be a great book for homeschooling or for teachers to bring to class around THANKSGIVING so that kids could learn about turkeys and its a great book for animal lovers too. I'm glad that I bought it here and its well worth the money and the time. A Great book and a must read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars *A GEM TO GOBBLE UP *. . . bad joke ; > ( . . ., January 12, 2005

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mcHaiku "nmi" (Brown County INDIANA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All About Turkeys (Hardcover)

Reviews by Amazon "Friends" have drawn me into the mysterious world of serendipity & exploration: Jim Aronsky's "All About Turkeys" was an important discovery. The lay-out of the book is most attractive, & stuffed with information, with excellent watercolor illustrations.

These wonderful birds should invade the childhood of every American. They are a "southern" bird although their range now spreads over the whole U.S.A. The author describes them as "very wary"... and "survivors" ... with "heavily muscled" legs. What is "blushing" in a human is a spectacular change of color in the head of a turkey called "tri-coloring." Two of a turkey's body parts are named "wattles" and "caruncles" ... both the words & the features seem delightfully grotesque. No wonder little kids love to go "gobble, gobble, gobble"!

Turkeys are great entertainment for anyone house-bound ... did you know they could fly as fast as 50 miles per hour? and that they 'stick it out' through the northern winters just as we do, but THEY roost in trees? We miss the flock from our woods when it leaves temporarily for another of its feeding areas. Turkeys & crows 'mixed it up' on our lawn recently and the crows were vanquished! (On my "about you" page you can see 'our' turkeys taking a Sunday stroll on Less Traveled Road!)

REVIEWER mcHAIKU hopes more house-hunters will realize that natural surroundings contribute immensely to a person's well-being; turkey neighbors are an added bonus! Thank You, Lynn of Webster NY for introducing me to Jim Arnosky through your Listmania & thanks to Amazon.com for making possible this serendipitous 'game'. . .

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All About What Mommy Doesn't Hate, October 25, 2005

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Kate Dino "Dinosaur Mom" - See all my reviews

This review is from: All About Turkeys (All About Series) (Paperback)

Jim Arnosky's "All About" series deserves five stars for meeting my stringent Mommy criteria: it holds my children's interest, it teaches me something I didn't know, I can get through reading it aloud in 10 minutes even if my kids keep asking me about the illustrations, and - most importantly - it doesn't annoy me when I have to read it over and over again. I give him four stars because he misuses commas, and I have strong feelings about punctuation. All About Turkeys does justice to a noble bird, and thanks to Jim Arnosky I've learned what wattles are. Any children's author who teaches me a new word is a friend of mine.