A review by octavia_cade
Canada Goose at Cattail Lane by Janet Halfmann

informative fast-paced

3.0

I do like geese! They can be a pest here in NZ, but I enjoy their grumpy, scrappy ways and their smooth, pretty feathers. They're one of my favourite birds. This little picture book follows a family of geese as the young hatch and make their way through the first months of life. The illustrations - as always in the Smithsonian Backyard books - are appealing, and one of them (the mother goose turning her eggs) is so detailed that for a moment I thought it was a photograph. 

I would have liked a little more explanation as to why the nest was built atop a muskrat house - is this normal? we don't have them in NZ so I'm not familiar - but maybe this is common knowledge where muskrats are found. Still, it's a cute little book.