{"product_id":"2940015947946","title":"BIRD STORIES","description":"This book is from series entitled \"Little Gateways to Science\" and surely, no hand has more magic in unlatching the little gateways than Edith Patch. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bird stories are as interesting and even as 'delightful' as the 'Hexapod Stories' that has become dear to so many children of her day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdith Patch understood the child's mind and therefore knew the child's interest in the story of 'one' creature rather than in a general description of habits about the species. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach one of these stories are a thrilling biography of a bird telling its home life, its nestling and birdling days and its experience as a grownup. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoreover, the birds described are not those usually selected for children. With the exception of the chickadee, the other stories deal with the lives unfamilar to children, of birds which they see but know comparatively little about. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author followed her own happy plan for naming the stories: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Chickadee is Chick D. D.\u003cbr\u003eThe Five Worlds of Larie give the complete history of the seagull\u003cbr\u003ePeter Piper is the biography of a sand piper\u003cbr\u003eGavia of Immer Lake tells of the loon\u003cbr\u003eEve and Petro are a pair of cliff swallows that have exciting experiences\u003cbr\u003eUncle Sam is the story of a bald eagle, our bird of freedom!\u003cbr\u003eCorbie is a fascinating tale of a tame crow that was reared and was the playmate of a Brown-eyed Boy and a Blue-eyed Girl\u003cbr\u003eArdea's Soldier is the snowy heron\u003cbr\u003eThe Flying Clown is a story of the night hawk that has taken up her abode on the roofs of city houses\u003cbr\u003eThe Lost Dove is the story of the passenger pigeon\u003cbr\u003eLittle Solomon Otus is the history of a screech owl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book closes with the romance and wanderings of Bob, The Vagabond and our beloved Bob-o-Link...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*   *   *   * \u003cbr\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e* More than three dozen illustrations by Robert J. Sim as they appeared in the Atlantic Monthy Press publication of 1921.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181615169776,"sku":"2940015947946","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015947946_p0.jpg?v=1763626533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015947946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}