City Safari: Pigeon by Isabel Thomas (author) (UK edition)

Who needs to fly to Africa or visit a safari park, when there is so much wildlife on our doorsteps? This book examines pigeons and discusses where city pigeons live, what they eat, what dangers they face, and why they like living so close to people. Special “spotter’s clues” symbols highlighting key pigeon behaviours and features are used throughout the book to enable readers to go on their own “city safari” once they have finished reading the book.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406271324

Publisher

Raintree Publishers

Date published

January 1st, 2015

Lexile measure

NC560L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.3; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

24 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Reviews

Major Farnsworth C. Pippington III
on 9 September 2020

Highly accurate

As someone who spent a large amount of his 20's dealing with messenger pigeons on a large scale, I can truly say that this book was totally accurate, and completely awe inspiring (naturally, the birds were better than the book but it was truly heart warming to be brought back to my younger days).
It reminds me of the time we walked through Berlin in the final days of the war, we had pigeons then, and I'm sure they have pigeons now.
This books accurately portrays the behavior and emotions of the pigeon, however, it leaves out the key danger of pigeons being shot down by enemy fire.

This book is a must read for all 5-8 year old's and all war veterans.

God Bless and Goodbye.

Major Farnsworth C. Pippington III

5 out of 5