Lions! Löwen!

These are the books we used for learning about lions:

• Lions, by Ann O. Squire
• Lions, by Sandra Markle
• Face to Face with Lions, by Beverly and Dereck Joubert
• And for fun: Akimbo and the Lions, by Alexander McCall Smith

Soaring on eagles' spirals

With our next homeschool review coming up, I'm working on my documentation.  Here are a few notes about our second Man and Animal block before I return the books to the library...

• Eagles: Lions of the Sky, by Emery Bernhard
• Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle, by Gail Gibbons
• Eagle & Birds of Prey, by Jemima Parry-Jones
• Keepers of the Animals, by Michael Caduto and Joseph Bruchac (Eagle Boy story)

Interesting, I thought S would love "Eagle & Birds of Prey".  It's a Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Book, and has loads of photos in it.  I checked out "Eagles: Lions of the Sky" just for good measure: it has lovely but simple illustrations, and my guess was that S would find it too easy.  Surprise!  The latter was by far his favorite.  When I asked him why, he told me how much he liked the pictures, and the fact that it told a story about eagles.  Score another point for the power of stories!