Who's that squawking in the backyard? It's an American crow! Find out where American crows live, what they eat, and how to identify the birds and their eggs.
Join the crow scientist Dr. Gavin Hunt and his team in New Caledonia, a beautiful Pacific island, as they investigate the mysteries of crow smarts. How do New Caledonian crows learn to use and make tools? Is it possible that crows are improving tool technology and passing improvements to future generations - an achievement believed to be unique to humans? Where is this tool use driving the crow brain? And what can all this tell us about how intelligence evolves? And while we're on the subject of crows...why do they eat the eyeballs of dead things?.
Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school misfits Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow students and the maneuverings of fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck.
Old Cricket doesn't feel like helping his wife and neighbors to prepare for winter and so he pretends to have all sorts of ailments that require the doctor's care, but hungry Old Crow has other ideas.
Crow is lonely, but he has a plan--he will construct a friend for himself. He tries it with sticks and leaves and snow, but his friends always blow away or melt--until he hears another crow cawing in a tree.
An overly-alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.
The two pigeons, Walter and Clay, want "The fox and the crow" banned from the library because they think the book makes birds look like birdbrains. Learn about animal stories and writing stories and poems, read Aesop's fables. Featuring the short "o" sound.
