book about the brain of the worlds brightest bird

I enjoyed how the book gave information and told a story at the same time about Munin and Little Feather. It gave a narrative story while talking about a crows life, food, smarts, and makeup. It also gives other examples of animals in the wild using some of the same techniques and survival processes that crows use. I liked how this books used captions, graphs, and maps to show more information amidst the narrative. It relates the tools that crows use to tools that we use in daily life and talks about the child crow to adult crow dynamic and how it is like a human parent teaching it's child. I liked how it talked about smart animals and how they mostly live in social groups and how we as humans can learn from one another just like animals can. This book had vocabulary charts that I could use and a lot of bold words throughout the book with easy to understand definitions. I could see using this book in an animals unit or as a supplement tool while I talk about the food chain or animal groups and classifications. This could work with other books about mammals and reptiles and animals as a introduction to biology and reading and understanding the creatures around us. ( )

Look out chimps, these crows are amazing.... ( )

Very informational book all about crows! I thought this was really neat because crows aren't necessarily a type of bird many people are fascinated with, but this book gives insights on how a crow lives, adapts, hunts, and behaves. Would be a great book to read a couple pages from every day during the fall months when crows make themselves more apparent outside. ( )