Raptor!: A Kid's Guide to Birds of Prey Paperback – Illustrated, 5 Aug. 2002

An excellent book

as expected

My son is a massive bird lover and he d

Raptors is a great book for kids wishing to get into handling birds. It is interesting enough for older children - my son is 12 years but simple enough to understand. Some of the adult books on birds of prey are very dry, but this manages to be both fun and informative.

Awesome book for kids interested in raptors or nature, in general. My 7 year old daughter and I flew hawks and are starting to study falconry. This is a great entry into basic facts with an eye catching layout and design that appeals to younger kids. She reads this without prompting and loves quoting facts. I recommend it!

...and I've seen a lot of them! (maybe 30 or more different children's books on raptors and birds)Many bird and raptor books for this age group are very basic and fairly sparse in detail, probably because they're written based on the assumption that most young readers would be overwhelmed by too much information. But my raptor-loving 7-year-old son poured over the library copy of Raptor! for many weeks, checking it out several times.After spotting a bird of prey in the sky a few times, he grew interested in raptors. Within a month, he had checked out every book on raptors in the children and juvenile section of our local library. Most of the other raptor library books were read only once and put aside. Not so with Raptor! -- there were plenty of interesting details for my son to soak up.We eventually invested in his own copy, which he still enjoys re-reading 2 years later. All in all, an excellent book for this topic and age group.

If you live on a hill, have tall trees, and want to identify who those magnificent guys are who are soaring around up there on the thermals, this is a great book. As a 72-year-old “kid”, I wasn’t interested in all the scientific jargon, I just wanted to tell them apart, learn their habits, and know who is sharing my yard spaces. Co-author (the late) Charles Smith was a personal friend and I knew he’d have researched things a kid would want to know, such as what bird throws up on you if you get too close. I recommend this book and its beautiful full-page illustrations to kids young and old.

Raptor is a great book for educators. Large, full color photos capture both children and adult's attention. Great information without being too long to read. Silouttes make for easy identification. All the birds of prey in one book without feeling like too much information is crammed into one book. I really like this book and recommend it for anyone with kids or just wanting good, basic inforamtion on raptors.

Good photos. Informative. Awesome information for the novice and encouraging for future birdwatchers. Nice reference. Highly recommend.