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  • Kookaburra

Kookaburra

Author
Illustrator
Tannya Harricks
Publication Date
August 17, 2021
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Kookaburra

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Description
The team behind Dingo returns with a lyrically told, beautifully illustrated exploration of another unique Australian animal: the laughing kookaburra. In the crinkled shadows, night dwellers yawn, day creatures stretch, and Kookaburra laughs. Kook-kook-kook. Kak-kak-kak. What is that sunrise chorus that sounds like laughter? It is a kookaburra and her family, calling over the river. Follow these iconic Australian birds as they search for food and team up to defend their territory in preparation for the nesting season. With rich paintings and poetic text, threaded through with intriguing facts, Kookaburra offers insight into the lives of these fascinating birds. Curious readers will find more information about kookaburras at the end, as well as an index leading them back through the book to explore these distinctive creatures more closely.
Publication date
August 17, 2021
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781536215199
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
BISAC categories
JNF003030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Birds
JNF038030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Australia & Oceania
JNF051000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | General
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Picture books for children
Animal behavior
Kookaburra
Claire Saxby
Claire Saxby is the author of numerous picture books, including Kookaburra and Dingo, both illustrated by Tannya Harricks, Emu, illustrated by Graham Byrne, and Koala, illustrated by Julie Vivas. Claire Saxby lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Cindy Lane was born in and grew up in Sydney, Australia, lived by the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, and now has her studio by the Indian Ocean in Perth. She loves to make her own paints with materials she finds in nature, and she collects water from around the world to use in her paintings. Seawater from across Australia was used in Great White Shark, her first picture book.
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