pestyside's Full Review: Katherine Katherine Rawson - If You Were a Parrot
If you were a child you could touch your toes, roll over and crawl, be brutally honest, and imagine lots of silly stuff. If you were a child you could imagine you were a parrot.
What could you learn about pretending to be a parrot? Katherine Rawson’s ”If You Were a Parrot” has fun with parrot parts and parrot facts. If you’ve ever watched a parrot you know they have two feet but only eight toes. Did you know that one toe on each foot points backwards?
But, what can you do with those feet? ”With feet like these, you could climb everywhere…up the curtains, all around the bookshelf, in and out of boxes even to the top of a potted fig tree.”
What else?
If you were a parrot you would have a sharp beak, you would make lots of noise, and you would love to take baths. That is, if you were a parrot.
“You would shower under a spray bottle or take a bath in a dish. You would have so much fun that you would squawk and splash water everywhere.”
If you were a child reading this book, you would learn how to say squawk and screech, wanna popsicle, preen and pretty bird. If you were one of the children in this book, you could have fun wearing parrot feet and beaks. Through pretend readers learn about what parrots need, how they behave and what they look like.
This whimsical story is packaged in a brightly illustrated picture book by artist Sherry Rogers. Her creative Photoshop images included scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, African grey parrots, and green nanday conures. Full-page images such as a boy with a parrot beak and wings will have all young readers delighted. They will also enjoy the many opportunities to learn new words through repetition.
Author Katherine Rawson used her own green parrot for inspiration in the telling of this informative story.
What do children learn? As with all Sylvan Dell Publishing Books, young readers with creative minds (that’s all young readers) can find a lot of parrot fun facts and adaptations. ”Parrots’ necks are very flexible so they can get their heads into just about anything.”
Instructions and a pattern for a make-a-beak can help everyone color their own. When done, the pretend begins. A final question on the last page asked if you are ready for a pet parrot. Before answering, read through some of the parrot requirements. Do you have the time, a cage or toys? Do you know a Veterinarian who can care for parrots?
Online learning links at www.sylvandellpublishing.com include Bird Beaks and Anatomy sources, Photos and Sound Tapes of Parrots, Crafts, Games and Curriculum Ideas, General Parrot Bird Information, and Parrot Adoption Agencies.
Play and imagination are great tools that encourage children's learning. If I were a teacher with pre-school learners, this would be an excellent resource for teaching bird classification, parrot adaptation, and caring for pets. As a teacher I would certainly get the Folkmanis Scarlet Macaw puppet to extend the fun and learning. If I were a four or five year old, it would be a lot of fun reading this with a parrot beak on my nose.
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