Hawks Kettle, Puffins Wheel And Other Poems of Birds in Flight
Susan Vande Griek is an award winning children's author Her writing has won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non Fiction Susan divides her time between Saint Andrews New Brunswick and Kingston Ontario Mark Hoffmann is a children's book illustrator fine artist and professor at Montserrat College of Art in the illustration department Hawks Kettle Puffins Wheel is his third book for children Originally from Minnesota Mark now lives with his family outside Boston Massachusetts
Hawks Kettle Puffins Wheel And Other Poems of Birds in Flight Susan Vande Griek mark Hoffmann Kids Can Press
Hawks Kettle Puffins Wheel Birds fly well most do But did you know that they also kettle mob wheel and dive as well as many other things besides Always and in their own special ways birds are on the move
Birds bodies are built for flying Their streamlined shape helps them move easily through the air Their wings are made of strong feathers and hollow bones that are relatively light And birds have special chest muscles that power their flapping wings By jumping or running and then flapping their wings birds produce thrust to take off and start flying Air rushes over the top of their curved wings and creates lift the force that keeps them aloft Their tail feathers control steering speed and balance as the birds maneuver through the air
