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A review by shanaqui
Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Around the World in 80 Birds features text by Mike Unwin and illustrations by Ryuto Miyake. The illustrations are, as typical for this series, beautifully done and brightly coloured. I feel like they're a bit more... exact to life, less inclined to fill up the page with fanciful designs, than in some of the other volumes of this series -- the birds are generally accurately represented, sometimes with scenes where they interact with human landscapes, etc, but it felt a bit less exuberant than some.
As for the stories about each bird, it's much like the other volumes as well: each bird is given a page, or sometimes two pages, of text explaining the significance of the bird. It doesn't feel super organised in some ways: less of a sense of a structure of "here are the birds on [continent]" than some of the others in the series. It's hard sometimes to know what prompts the inclusion of one bird over another.
Overall, a beautiful and interesting book.
As for the stories about each bird, it's much like the other volumes as well: each bird is given a page, or sometimes two pages, of text explaining the significance of the bird. It doesn't feel super organised in some ways: less of a sense of a structure of "here are the birds on [continent]" than some of the others in the series. It's hard sometimes to know what prompts the inclusion of one bird over another.
Overall, a beautiful and interesting book.