Customer Reviews

All About Turkeys

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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.

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'. . .

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.

A really good book about turkeys and unlike any other. I really enjoyed it and learned some things myself!