Flamingos

Amazing Animals

by Kate Riggs

Meet the largest birds in the world! Introduce elementary kids to pink flamingos and their lives in the wild.

With their long legs, flamingos can easy wade through shallow soda lakes to scoop up fish. These large wading birds need a running start in order take flight. Readers explore this bird's behaviors, and habitats, features, including why its feathers are pink, with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end folk tale from South America shares why flamingos like salty water.

A great nonfiction resource for student reports, animal units, and life science lessons. Includes table of contents, index, same-page definitions, and further resources.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Birds, Animals, Nonfiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2015

Reviews

[Addie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A simple, straight forward understanding of flamingos. I liked learning that flamingos build nests of mud, a flock of them is called a Colony, and they not only sleep with their heads resting on their backs but also really do rest on one leg! There is a cute folk tale about why flamingos like salty water at the end of the book that originated in South America.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a large format title illustrated with excellent photos of flamingos. There is enough information contained in this title to make it useful, including that the color of flamingos comes from what and when a flamingo chick hatches it is the size of a tennis ball.

[Asho · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened in while J read this book to the three kids tonight. Baby F was more interested in this than I would have expected her to be and stared with rapt attention at the photographs of the flamingos. This book came to us via a Chick-fil-A kids' meal.

[Karina]

This can be used depending on the student's interest. To broaden knowledge of different animals have "animal of the day" or "animal of the week" and have a copy for each student to have as a read aloud.

[Warcraft · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a fun overview of the species.

[Rowan Stewart]

This informative books about one of my favorite animals would be incredibly useful in the classroom. I could use this book to help students learn research skills and learn more about an incredible animal.

Each page of the story adds an interesting fact about flamingos, telling readers where they live, what they eat, what kind of water they live in, and so much more. If there are any words that are slightly more difficult, they are defined at the bottom of the page. This feature makes the book very accessible to many students. The images on each page are actual photos of flamingos in the wild and correlate to the facts on the left of the page. The very first page of the book describes where flamingos live, and above the text, there is a world map that shows everywhere that flamingos are found in the wild. The images are full page, without borders or margins. The side of the book that contains the text has a colored border on the outside and a slight shadow dividing the facts and the vocabulary.

This book was very interesting because I was able to learn more about an animal that I really like. Flamingos are absolutely amazing, and learning more about them helps me expand my knowledge of other animals.