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Kakapo Rescue: Saving The World's Strangest Parrot (2010)

by Sy Montgomery(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0618494170 (ISBN13: 9780618494170)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: Winner of 2011's Sibert Medal, for the most distinguished informational book published in English, Kakapo Rescue is a pure delight! After suffering catastrophic population loss due to many external factors over time, a Kakapo recovery team made up of scientists and volunteers comes together on a tiny island off the southern coast of New Zealand to save the world's heaviest parrot who also happens to smell like honey! An incredibly engaging book, you will fall in love with this flightless bird and its super soft whiskers, which are beautifully photographed by Nic Bishop. Highly recommend!Reviewed by: Julia Pyatetsky, Youth Services, Vernon Area Public Library
review 2: A truly fascinating encounter with one of the rarest animals on Earth, Kakapo Rescue takes th... moree younger and older reader along on a textually and photographically stunning journey to a remote island off the New Zealand coast. On Codfish Island, a kakapo sanctuary has been erected to save the extremely endangered animals, of which eighty-seven exist; they only breed at certain times, and even then, their eggs and offspring are incredibly fragile. Montgomery and Bishop capture the volunteers’ highs and lows as they monitor the eggs and hatched babies; one story in particular, about a young chick who suddenly and mysteriously dies, pulls on the heartstrings.[return][return]Bishop makes sure to include photographs that show New Zealand’s splendor aside from kakapo parrots and Codfish Island, and Montgomery does an excellent job of providing background information about the events that led to the kakapo decimation. This book is an extraordinarily fascinating look at a fascinating and rare animal that one cannot help but want to save. less

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