Sylvia and the Birds
How the Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can too
$45.18
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
7 September 2022
Summary
Based on the life of ‘The Bird Lady’, Sylvia Durrant, who helped over 140,000 sick, injured and lost birds during her lifetime, it inspires a reverence for the natural world and is a call to action to all young ecologists and environmentalists.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995140783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995140782 |
| Author: | Johanna Emeney, Sarah Laing |
| Publisher: | Massey University Press |
| Imprint: | Massey University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 861g |
| Dimensions: | 270mm x 190mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
This is a special book for anyone who cares about the birdlife of Aotearoa
– Jenny NichollsSylvia and the Birds is a fortifying book – a book that makes you want to be “a hero in your own backyard”. It is a book that is informative, entertaining, moving. A complete package.
– Paula GreenSylvia and the Birds would make a great Christmas present for the whole family to explore
– Alex EaglesPart-graphic biography, part-practical guide to protecting our wildlife, it’s a handsome, generous, book … A book that should be in every household and school.
– Maria GillAbout The Author
Johanna Emeney
Johanna Emeney teaches creative writing at Massey University, where she gained her PhD. She has published three books of poetry: Apple & Tree (2011), Family History (2017), and Felt (2021), and an academic book, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (2018). Johanna lives on a lifestyle block in North Auckland with her husband and a menagerie of animals.
Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist. Her books are Coming up Roses (2007), Dead People’s Music (2009), Inside a Pomegranate, The Fall of Light (both 2013) and Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir (2016). In 2010 she was the Sargeson Fellow and in 2013 the University of Auckland/Michael King Writers Centre Fellow.
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