Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

by Sy Montgomery

Book Overview

2011 Sibert Medal Winner
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds--the largest and most unusual parrots on earth--have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with the last of the species, New Zealand's National Kakapo Recovery Team is working to restore the kakapo population...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618494170
• ISBN13: 9780618494170
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7