Skip to main content

Display: Flamingos

By


Flora and the Flamingo
By Molly Idle
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. Picture book.

In this wordless book, a friendship develops between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo, as they learn to dance together.


By Moira Butterfield
Illustrated by Claudia Boldt
London, UK: Welbeck Editions, 2020. Informational.

Learn how to move and groove like the animals do with this bright, fun and silly book aimed at younger readers to engage them in movement!


By Sue Graves
Illustrated by Trevor Dunton
New York: Franklin Watts, 2022. Informational.

Flamingo is scared of many things, such as spiders, the dark, and getting lost, but his grandfather shows him how to be brave, and Flamingo explains his fears to his friends so they can all be brave together.


By Laura James
Illustrated by Emily Fox
New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019. Intermediate.

Flamingo detective Fabio and his giraffe associate, Gilbert, investigate when a singing hippopotamus disappears during auditions for a talent show being staged to save the failing Hotel Royale.


By Jonathan London
Illustrated by Kristina Rodanas
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children, 2008. Informational.

Watch a flamingo hatch from its egg until it becomes a full-grown flamingo.


By Guojing
New York: Random House Studio, 2022. Graphic novel.

A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.


By Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Illustrated by Aaron Spurgeon
New York: Simon Spotlight, 2022. Easy reader.

Birds of different feathers play bingo together, and watch the balls spin as they all hope to win.


By Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Lucille Danis Drouot
Toronto, ON: Pajama Press, 2020. Picture book.

A young flamingo named Filippo becomes self-conscious when other animals refuse to play with him because he is pink. He struggles to be accepted and to accept himself. Finally, with encouragement from family members and a kind-hearted lemur, Filippo learns to love himself for who he is.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Review: The Factory

By
The Factory By Catherine Egan New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2025. Fiction. 306 pages.  Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle has been invited to join the Factory, a secretive research facility in the desert which ostensibly extracts renewable energy from the electromagnetic fields of its young recruits. But Asher soon realizes something sinister is going on. Kids are getting sick. The adults who run the Factory seem to be keeping secrets. And the extraction process is not only painful and exhausting, but existentially troubling. Asher makes a handful of new friends who help him with an investigation that turns into a resistance, which turns into...a cliffhanger! The Factory is a page-turning sci-fi with multidimensional characters, an intriguing plot, and refreshingly straight-forward writing. Egan weaves in detail about climate crises and social unrest, making the story's dystopian setting feel rich and plausible. With its sophisticated themes and accessible storytelling, I would recomm...
Post a Comment
Read more

Review: Fowl Play

By
  Fowl Play By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2024. Fiction 277 pages. Still reeling from her beloved uncle's death, Chloe Alvarez is comforted and confused when at his last will and testament reading, Uncle Will gifts her his African Grey parrot, Charlie. Charlie has a robust vocabulary and loves to make Alexa requests for her favorite songs, but when she starts saying things like, "homicide," and "cyanide," Chloe becomes convinced that Uncle Will may have met his demise by murder instead of a genetic disease, as was previously thought. Ultimately, bringing in her brother, Grammy, and Uncle Frank (and of course Charlie,) Chloe's ragtag and adoring family support her search for answers ---going on stakeouts, engaging in fast pursuits, and searching for clues. But as the suspects stack up and the mystery grows, Chole will learn that the process of death and grieving is complicated, and in the end her Uncle Will's words that, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry

By DeeDee
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry Edited by J. Patrick Lewis National Geographic, 2012, 183 p. Poetry In this beautiful poetry collection, the National Children's Poet Laureate, J. Patrick Lewis, has teamed up with the amazing photographers at National Geographic. The result is 200 poems about animals, all illustrated with stunning nature photography.  The poems are well chosen and include rhyming, free verse, and shape poetry. Some of the poems are funny, many are contemplative and all are nicely typeset on top of the full color photographs. One of my favorites is a shape poem about flamingos, with a photograph of a flock of flamingos which seem to be standing the the shape of a flamingo (how did they do that?).  Lewis ends the collection with a brief but interesting section about writing animal poetry.  This selection is sure to turn any animal lover into a poetry lover.
Post a Comment
Read more