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000771872 1001_ $$aThornhill, Jan,$$eauthor,$$eillustrator.
000771872 24514 $$aThe tragic tale of the great auk /$$cJan Thornhill.
000771872 264_1 $$aToronto ;$$aBerkeley :$$bGroundwood Books :$$bHouse of Anansi Press,$$c2016.
000771872 264_4 $$c©2016
000771872 300__ $$a1 volume (unpaged) :$$bcolor illustrations, color map ;$$c29 cm
000771872 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000771872 336__ $$astill image$$bsti$$2rdacontent
000771872 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000771872 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000771872 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references.
000771872 520__ $$aFor hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive.  In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen's waist." Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn't fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn't walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time...until humans became seafarers. Great Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors' items--their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks--one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.)
000771872 521__ $$aElementary Grade
000771872 5218_ $$a1130$$bLexile
000771872 5260_ $$aAccelerated Reader$$c6.5
000771872 5260_ $$aReading Counts!$$c9.7
000771872 650_0 $$aGreat auk$$vJuvenile literature.
000771872 650_0 $$aGreat auk$$xEcology.
000771872 650_0 $$aExtinct birds.
000771872 650_1 $$aGreat auk.
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