Customer Reviews

Fine Feathered Friends: All About Birds (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)

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This book engaged my 4 year old daughter from the moment she saw the cover. The combination of familiar characters (The Cat in the Hat, Sally) and silly Seuss-like rhymes and drawings is a wonderful vehicle for teaching preschoolers simple biology concepts. My daughter laughed while learning about the biggest, smallest, and quirkiest members of the bird family. This book is part of a series that spans birds, fish, mammals, insects, and dinosaurs. As a group, the series is a great tool to teach children about groupings in nature (i.e., what do mammals, insects, birds have in common?, how do they differ?). Even adults can learn a fact or two while reading to the little ones!

In this book the cat in the hat comes back again to visit Dick and Sally, but this time he doesn't create a mess. This time he has come to teach them all about birds. To start off with he talks about birds in general, how they have feathers and a tail and hatch out of eggs. Then he, Thing 1, and Thing 2 take Sally and Dick to different places to introduce them to several different types of birds, such as the spoonbill, emperor penguin, bald eagle, ostrich and more. The cat then leads them all into his Fine Feather, All-Weather Flying Machine, getting them home just in time so that their mother doesn't notice they were gone. This book is very informative, and is written in rhyme. The pictures are bright, bold and colorful. Somehow though, this book fails to capture my attention and hold it, making it not one of the best books I've read by this author.

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We bought this book to go along with a bird feeder (Perky-Pet 348 Window Wild Bird Feeder) for our three year old daughter. Originally I was looking at this book (Birds which I'm sure is also a wonderful book but we already have one other of the Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That books (Clam-I-Am!: All About the Beach (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)) and our daughter has really enjoyed that one so I took a chance on Fine Feathered Friends: All About Birds. It's definitely interesting and educational and while it covers way more types of birds than we'll ever see at our little bird feeder, my only complaint is that the rhyme scheme seems a little off in some places. It just doesn't quite flow off the tongue like some of the other books. Other than that though, it's still a good book and our daughter seems to like it which is the important part. Now if we could only get some birds to use our feeder...

It's a cute little book, keeps my 2 year old pretty interested (although he seems to enjoy more some of the other Cat in the Hat books such: "Oh can you say Dinosaur", "Inside your outside"), maybe he's too little for this one. We'll see in a year or two.

My 2 year old granddaughter loved having me read this book to her. By the second reading, she was completing the rhymes. I find this type of book perfect for the little ones just learning to read. The rhyming gets their attention, and they get so excited when they can finish the last word of a sentence. For her it was the answer to what every bird has: "a beak, two wings, and A TAIL." Big hit. Quick shipping from seller.

Our son-in-law is enjoying reading this book to his 14 month old who enjoys the pictures. They look forward to spotting the birds while they walk in Seattle.