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Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Author:
Roth, Susan L.
CoAuthor:
Trumbore, Cindy
Illustrator:
Roth, Susan L.
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Class:
598.7109
Age: 7-10
Language: English
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LC: QL696.P7
Grade: 2-5
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ISBN-13: 9781620140048
LCCN: 2012048195
Imprint: Lee & Low Books
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Pub Date: 10/20/2013
Availability: Available
List: $20.95
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm.
H 10.25",
W 9",
D 0.5",
1.0625 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Parrots
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Children and Teen Nonfiction Picks
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
Green Earth Book Award Honors
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Awards:
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Americas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Booklist Editors Choice
Booklist Starred Reviews
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices
Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Horn Book Starred Reviews
Kirkus Best Books
Kirkus Starred Reviews
Notable Children's Books, ALA
Orbis Pictus Award Winners
Publishers Weekly Annual Best Books Selections
Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
Robert F. Sibert Award Winners
School Library Journal Best Books
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
Teachers' Choices Reading List
VOYA's Nonfiction Honor List
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Starred Reviews:
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Booklist
Horn Book
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Birds
Ecology/Environment
Central America and Caribbean
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Birds
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Caribbean & Latin America
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LC Subjects:
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Birds, Protection
Endangered species
Endangered species, Puerto Rico
Endangered species, Puerto Rico, Juvenile literature
Natural history
Natural history, Puerto Rico, Juvenile literature
Puerto Rican parrot
Puerto Rican parrot, Conservation, Juvenile literature
Puerto Rican parrot, Juvenile literature
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, Environmental conditions, Juvenile literature
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SEARS Subjects: |
Birds, Protection
Natural history, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican parrot
Puerto Rico, Environmental aspects
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5.7
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Points: 0.5
Lexile Level:
890
Reading Counts Level:
7.5
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Points: 2.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 11/01/2013 |
| It's up to a handful of scientists to rescue these birds from extinction as those involved with the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program race to ensure endangered Puerto Rican parrots' future, their story interlaced with a brief history of Puerto Rico that covers everything from its existence before human settlers to the modern-day island. 48pp., Color Ill. |
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| Booklist | 11/15/2013 |
| Grades 2-5. Few nonfiction picture books attempt this level of ambition, and even fewer succeed. Thankfully, Roth and Trumbore's first instinct ends up being the best one: To tell the story of the Puerto Rican parrot you must also tell the story of Puerto Ricans. The earliest human inhabitant of the island originally known as Boriquen arrived by boat around 5,000 BCE. They found a land replete with wildlife, including the brightly colored parrots that built nests in the trees. Watershed moments in Puerto Rican history--including first contact with Europeans in 1493, the arrival of slaves from Africa, and the Spanish-American War--parallel the sharp decline in the parrots' population, which numbered only 24 by the 1960s. That's when collaborative efforts of the Puerto Rican and American governments to protect the parrots began, as scientists taught the birds basic social behaviors, how to recognize enemies, and how to raise their young. Roth's stunning artwork--fluttery, textural collages of fabric and paper with a three-dimensional quality--complement the high-interest narrative and are arranged vertically across dual pages to make the most of the tall trees and the related human actions taking place below. A triumphant reminder of the inescapable connection between people's actions and the animals in the wild. Anderson, Erin. 48p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book | 01/01/2014 |
| Primary. This gorgeously illustrated history of the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot, along with the settlement and development of Puerto Rico, underscores the environmental consequences of human populations on indigenous animal species. The beautiful green and blue parrots witness early human settlement on the island, then suffer a decline in numbers over centuries of human population growth, colonization, and wars; invasive species that compete for resources; and natural disasters. The parrots were down to a population of only thirteen in 1975; conservation efforts, located first in the El Yunque rainforest and then spread out to other locations across the island, have increased parrot numbers to several hundred. With stunning paper-and-fabric artwork on each spread, the book is laid out vertically to best give a sense of height. Ruffly feathered parrots, colorfully clothed people, and a series of Puerto Rican landmarks are located within dense, intricate illustrations in which layer upon layer of branches, leaves, ferns, and other greenery capture the lushness of the landscapes. An afterword includes additional details about conservation efforts, several color photographs of the parrots and the people working to save them, and a timeline of historical and environmental events in Puerto Rico. danielle j. ford. 48pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 09/01/2013 |
| An ambitious project: The text on each vibrant, double-page collage, arranged vertically, intersperses the near-extinction and slow comeback of the Puerto Rican parrot with over 2,000 years of human history. "Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home....[T]hey nearly vanished from the earth forever. This is their story." From this dramatic beginning onward, both artwork and text encourage slow absorption of each spread before the turn of the page. Various peoples--from unnamed aboriginals to Tainos, Europeans, Africans and eventually North Americans--brought with them new flora, fauna and habits, all contributing to the demise of the native birds. Finally, in 1968, two governments began the work that continues today to restore the wild flocks. There are fascinating details about a 1539 fortress wall, leather jackets worn by parrots during hawk-avoidance training and materials used to mend an injured wing. The onomatopoeic derivation of the parrots' Taino name, iguaca, is developed nicely in its repeated use as the parrots' call. By turns poetic and scientific, the text offers a wealth of information. Every paper-and-fabric collage is frame-worthy, from depictions of waterfalls and rain forest to sailing ships, hazards and, of course, parrots. From the commanding cover illustration to the playful image on the back, simply spectacular. (afterword, photos, chronology, sources) (Informational picture book. 8-14). 48pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 08/05/2013 |
| Ages 6-11. Parrots thrived in Puerto Rico long before the first human settlers arrived some 5,000 years ago; by 1975, only 13 of the birds were still living in the wild. Roth and Trumbore follow The Mangrove Tree with another story of ecological revitalization, explaining the threats the parrots faced over the centuries, including invasive species and deforestation. The authors demonstrate how the parrots' survival was entwined with Puerto Rico's very history (bees and rats from Spanish settlers' ships wreaked havoc on the birds' nests) before detailing ongoing efforts to rebuild their numbers. The book itself is oriented vertically, calendar-style, amplifying its sense of height and allowing for dramatic paper and fabric collages that show the vivid blue-and-green parrots soaring over the island. In an especially lovely scene, a towering waterfall of crinkled strips of white paper cascades over a fibrous backdrop of rocks in Puerto Rico's El Yunque rainforest. An extensive afterword describes the species' recovery and includes more than a dozen photographs. A thoughtful and thorough examination of the ways human action can both help and harm animal populations. (Oct.). 48p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 10/01/2013 |
| Gr 3-6--Before humans arrived on the island, parrots numbered in the hundred of thousands. By 1967, only 24 birds remained. Since then, scientists in the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program (PRPRP) have established aviaries to raise the birds in captivity and release them in the wild. Using a vertical page orientation, Roth has plenty of space for detailed collages that depict the parrots' lives and struggles above human activities that have altered the island's ecosystem over the centuries. Tainos, Spanish explorers and settlers, African slaves, and others hunted parrots for food, cut down nesting places, and introduced animals that ate their eggs. After the United States took control, deforestation continued. Some military history and political questions such as the debate about Puerto Rico's commonwealth status slow the narrative. When the focus shifts to the strategies, setbacks, and successes of the PRPRP, the story soars. From constructing nesting boxes to training captive-bred birds how to avoid hawks, the program is slowly rebuilding the parrot population. After the main story, several pages of photos accompany further explanations of the group's work. In addition to their list of sources, the authors supply a detailed time line of events. Like this team's The Mangrove Tree (Lee & Low, 2011), this title offers an engaging and hopeful look at environmental restoration. Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato. 48p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 01/01/2014 |
| R. 6-9 yrs. In this cross-disciplinary picture book, Roth and Trumbore trace the history of the Puerto Rican parrot, the only parrot indigenous to the United States and its territories, linking the bird to the history of the island itself. The book examines the ways humans have affected the environment for the parrot, from the early Taino people to European settlers to the current populace. The parrot nearly became extinct by the mid-twentieth century due to habitat destruction and competition from invasive species and both historical and contemporary efforts to protect the parrot are described. The book is notable for its parallel treatment of both social and ecological histories, offered in engaging and descriptive prose-hardly a page goes by without the refrain of the parrots' call (Iguaca!). The paper and fabric collage illustrations are lush with texture, using fine detail to show off the verdant landscape and dramatic unfolding of events; the book's vertical format highlights the flight of the birds over Puerto Rico, with visual depictions of the parrots and their lives displayed above text about the island's development and colonization. This can certainly serve as a crossover between social studies and science classrooms, but the story's vivid enough to stand on its own as a grand environmental narrative. An afterword includes photographs and additional information about conservation efforts, while additional back matter includes a timeline and bibliography. TA. 44p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2014. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 1. K-3. This gorgeously illustrated history of the endangered Puerto Rican parrot underscores the environmental consequences of human populations on indigenous animal species. With stunning paper-and-fabric artwork, the book is laid out vertically to give a sense of height. Ruffly-feathered parrots, colorfully clothed people, and Puerto Rican landmarks are located within dense, intricate illustrations that capture the lushness of the landscape. Timeline. djf. 48pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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