Birding Is My Favorite Video Game
Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon
Published on 17. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-4494-8912-0 (ISBN)
Description
Amusing science cartoons about the natural world including animal dating profiles, wildlife wine pairings, threat displays of completely non-threatening animals, why hammerhead sharks have hammer heads, and much more.
Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science facts, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection does for biology what XKCD does for math and Hark! A Vagrant does for history.
Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science facts, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection does for biology what XKCD does for math and Hark! A Vagrant does for history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kansas City
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 119 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4494-8912-0 (9781449489120)
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Rosemary Mosco is a science writer and artist, and she's passionate about sharing her love for the natural world. She creates the award-winning science webcomic Bird and Moon and has written and drawn for Audubon, Ranger Rick, The American Ornithological Society, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and others. Her work was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit at Cornell's Museum of the Earth and was featured by IFLS, Audubon, Upworthy, io9, Science News, the National Wildlife Federation, The Huffington Post, It's Okay to be Smart, The Mary Sue, The Times of India, and more. She once spent six months drawing all 162 species of snake in the United States. Her favorite bird is the Laysan Albatross.