The Nature Kid's Guide to Cassowaries

Crunch! A huge bird lowers its bony helmet and pushes straight through a wall of thick jungle plants. It's a cassowary, and that ridge on its head is just one of its amazing features.

There's way more to cassowaries than their dangerous kick. These remarkable birds make the deepest sound of any bird on Earth, can run 31 miles per hour and swim across ocean channels, and father cassowaries raise their chicks completely alone after the mother walks away.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Cassowaries" is written for curious kids ages 7 to 12 who want to know what makes these jungle giants so extraordinary. What is the hard helmet-shaped bump on their head actually for? How do cassowaries help an entire rainforest grow just by eating fruit? And why does a female cassowary leave several different males each raising a nest full of eggs?

Short sentences and surprising facts fill every page. Your child will discover that cassowaries eat over 200 kinds of fruit that no other animal can digest, that their boom call travels through the forest so deep you feel it in your chest, and that baby chicks are born with brown stripes that slowly fade to glossy black over three years. They'll learn how cassowaries crash through thick brush like a battering ram, how their bright blue neck skin glows in the dim jungle light, and why only about 4,000 are left in Australia today.

A book for every kid who loves birds and is about to meet the most dangerous one on the planet.

Dagger claws, thundering booms, and a whole book full of wild facts your child will want to share.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child's next favorite bird is hiding deep in the jungle.