For our first cab off the rank in July's theme of "Animals and Plants", we have a couple of field guides to whet your appetite.
Tasch found a book full of fruits - rainforest fruits, to be precise. Not all of these are edible, so a good field guide could save your life. Sharon also found a field guide, but hers was for the birds. You're less likely to eat a poisonous bird, but if you have trouble telling your drongos from your buzzards, this could come in handy.
What "fields" will you explore in our Reading Challenge?
Natascha
Kucurs read Australian Rainforest Fruits: A
Field Guide, by Wendy Cooper & William T. Cooper.
Sharon Bryan read Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day.
Fun fact: in both Disney's Tangled and the Hale's Rapunzel's Revenge (which Sammy reviewed last year), it is revealed that Rapunzel has exactly three books in her tower. In Tangled, the books are titled simply Botany, Geology and Cooking (all a bit generic, really), but in Rapunzel's Revenge they are Girls Who Get Saved and the Princes Who Save Them, Weave Your Own Twig Bonnet and There's Always Bird Watching.
One day, if no one beats me to it, I'm going to write a book called "There's Always Bird Watching." It's ironic, because when it comes to birds, I'm pretty much illiterate. I simply cannot tell the difference between a swift and a swallow. I look up pictures of them in books like Simpson and Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia and think, "Okay, I think swifts have longer wings and swallows have longer tails - how's that going to help me if they aren't side-by-side? Wait, what, martins? Who needs a third bird in this mix?" Don't even get me started on hawks vs kites vs falcons.
This is a fun book to flick through, and look at the illustrations and descriptions. And, if you aren't completely dyslexic when it comes to birds, you may find it a useful book to take with you on your journeys through Australia. I still can't tell the difference between a crow and a raven.
Non-fiction, Australian author I haven't read before, 598.2994 BIR T2 2010
Tasch found a book full of fruits - rainforest fruits, to be precise. Not all of these are edible, so a good field guide could save your life. Sharon also found a field guide, but hers was for the birds. You're less likely to eat a poisonous bird, but if you have trouble telling your drongos from your buzzards, this could come in handy.
What "fields" will you explore in our Reading Challenge?
Natascha
Kucurs read Australian Rainforest Fruits: A
Field Guide, by Wendy Cooper & William T. Cooper.
How do you like your fruit? Pink, purple, blue, black,
yellow, orange, red, green, brown or white? Australian Rainforest Fruits: A
Field Guide has them all. This splendid compilation by local husband and wife
team Wendy (author) and William T. (Bill – artist; painter) describes and
depicts 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia’s eastern
rainforests. Arranged by ripe colour and complete with leaf drawings, maps, and
characteristics for each species, the guide serves to help the most botanically
challenged, make sense of their fruity world.
A shout out to the internationally renowned and celebrated
illustrator Bill,
long-time Atherton Tablelands resident, who professionally painted for over 50
years. Interested in viewing a Cooper in the flesh? ‘Scattering of the Crows‘,
is on display at the Tablelands
Regional Gallery.
Author I haven’t read before, Non-fiction, eBook.
Sharon Bryan read Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day.Fun fact: in both Disney's Tangled and the Hale's Rapunzel's Revenge (which Sammy reviewed last year), it is revealed that Rapunzel has exactly three books in her tower. In Tangled, the books are titled simply Botany, Geology and Cooking (all a bit generic, really), but in Rapunzel's Revenge they are Girls Who Get Saved and the Princes Who Save Them, Weave Your Own Twig Bonnet and There's Always Bird Watching.
One day, if no one beats me to it, I'm going to write a book called "There's Always Bird Watching." It's ironic, because when it comes to birds, I'm pretty much illiterate. I simply cannot tell the difference between a swift and a swallow. I look up pictures of them in books like Simpson and Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia and think, "Okay, I think swifts have longer wings and swallows have longer tails - how's that going to help me if they aren't side-by-side? Wait, what, martins? Who needs a third bird in this mix?" Don't even get me started on hawks vs kites vs falcons.
This is a fun book to flick through, and look at the illustrations and descriptions. And, if you aren't completely dyslexic when it comes to birds, you may find it a useful book to take with you on your journeys through Australia. I still can't tell the difference between a crow and a raven.
Non-fiction, Australian author I haven't read before, 598.2994 BIR T2 2010
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