What's it like to be a Sandhill Crane?
YOUNG NATURALIST and avid birdwatcher Jace wants to find out.
With the encouragement of his friend and mentor, Mr. Muchmore, Jace builds a blind down by the river on the beautiful Muchmore farm. Not long after the cranes return in the spring, Jace spies a nest in the reeds. When Tig is hatched, the adventure begins. Jace soon realizes that young cranes are in a race against time-they need to grow up fast in order to be big enough and strong enough to join the migration before ice is on the river. As Tig moves from chick to colt, Jace becomes ever more involved in the life of the young bird, and then he uses his imagination to find out what it really means to be a sandhill crane. Detailed descriptions of environmental adaptation and the wetland ecosystem are revealed through the eyes of the young boy who has imagined himself right into the struggle for wild existence.
Dramatic watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Thomas Jewell illustrate the life and environment of Tig (Antigone canadensis).
Join Jace and Tig on their adventure, and then bring your book outside to fill in the blank field-note pages with naturalist observations of your own!
Tig of the Marsh and Wetland is the second book in the Science Story Books series, a collection of books about kids experiencing nature using ecological empathy.
Tig of the Marsh and Wetland
6 x 9, 48 pages, perfect-bound, with color cover and stunning color illustrations by renowned Wisconsin artist Thomas Jewell on nearly every page. $12.95 plus $3 shipping.