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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: tragic tale of the great auk
  name:
    name part: Thornhill, Jan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Juvenile works.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
  abstract: For 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.)
  target audience: juvenile
  note: Jan Thornhill.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: American Library Association Notable Children's Bk
  subject:
    topic: Great auk
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Great auk
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Extinct birds
  subject:
    topic: Great auk
  subject:
    topic: Great auk
  classification: QL696.C42 T56 2016
  classification: j598.3/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Tragic tale of the great auk
    name:
      name part: Thornhill, Jan, author, illustrator.
    identifier: (CaOONL)20159084512
  identifier: 9781554988655
  identifier: 1554988659
  identifier: 9781554988662
  identifier: 1554988667
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 151211
    record change date: 20240705224821.5
    record identifier: in00003753726
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng