The rainbirds |
The rainbirds by David Metzenthen and Sally Rippin
Cover illustration by Sally Rippin
Cover reproduced with kind permission of Hachette Children’s Books, Australia
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METZENTHEN, David & RIPPIN, Sally
The rainbirds
Hachette, Vic, 2006 (Lothian)
ISBN 0734408862
A father tells young Gleeson about the migratory habits of a certain breed of black and white bird, and its links to weather phenomena and the onset of both winter and spring. The unusual collage illustrations are highly effective, using whitewashed newsprint backgrounds, characters cut from textured brown and black paper, and controlled applications of brightly painted highlights. These contrast well against the coloured text throughout. The birds’ onomatopoeic cries eventually reveal them to be currawongs. While drought in Australia is not specifically mentioned, the alternating sparse and lush imagery in this gently told picture book would suit an investigation of weather patterns and the seasons, such as in the Early Stage 1 Science and Technology Unit: Time, earth and weather. I. McLean
USER LEVEL: Early Stage 1 Stage 1 Stage 2
KLA: SciTech
SYLLABUS: Science & Technology K–6
$27.95 SCIS 1282917
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