Gorgeously illustrated!! This book is an excellent addition to school unit on birds or evolution. The use of modern tools to describe the function of bird beaks and how they differ based in diet/behavior is an excellent critical thinking feature. This book makes a wonderful resource for young learners.

I think that any bird loving reader would find this book adorable! The way the illustrator used non-bird objects part of the shadow bird beaks was charming! The pictures and overall style of the book was also really easy to read and very approachable! My 7 year old would find this book very interesting and would use this as a jumping off point to learn even more about the birds on each page which is a win in my book!

A Peek at Beaks was so clever and such a delight! It passed the toddler test - as I read it with my daughter. We loved the guessing game aspect, and we were so pleased with the ones we got right! We both learned so much and look forward to looking more closely at the birds around us.
Charming and detailed illustrations really made it all come to life for us, We look forward to A Peek at Beaks to go to print, so we can add it to our collection.

This is a fun book which will encourage children to become more aware of their natural environment by identifying birds and learning something about their adaptations. A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use is written by Sara Levine and illustrated by Kate Slater. It is aimed at readers ages 5-9 and comes in at 32 pages. It will be published by Millbrook Press in September of 2021.

I really enjoyed this book and learned about a variety of birds. It would be great as a read- along for little ones and older elementary children could enjoy it on their own. The illustrations and examples were entertaining and educational.

This is an educational, fun, brightly illustrated book that shows kids how birds use their beaks for different purposes and how their beak shapes help them with their particular methods of finding food. The end section gives even more information. A great guide to understand beak shapes and how they help birds.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Lovely illustrations! This book is about birds and beaks. This is a children's nonfiction book that sure to grab adult's attention as well. The style with questions and answers are very interactive. There's also an explanation about evolution in birds.

I 💓 birds and find something new I didn't know before. For example adult seagulls have a red dot on their beaks for the chicks to peck on when they are hungry. The parents would regurgitate a meal for them. Another new to me is the toucan's large beak. It's beak is full of blood vessels that works as ventilation to cool off in the tropical climate. Very cool!

Thank you Netgalley, Lerner Publishing Group/Millbrook Press for this ARC.

Kids learn about the many ways birds use beaks to hunt for food, cool themselves off, and more. What could've been more a repetitive list book becomes engaging and interactive thanks to its clever question and answer format. My only criticism is that I think some of the comparisons might not resonate with kids. Most will recognize a straw and a net, but tongs and needle-nosed pliers may be less familiar to them. Still, this is a fascinating concept with lively illustrations that animal-loving kids will love.

NOTE: I reviewed a digital ARC via NetGalley.

We absolutely loved this book. It was fun, educational, and appealing to the young reader’s eye. I will definitely be keeping a copy for our home library.

Review to come Sept 1st on blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I just love books about birds and this one looked very fun, the cover was so pretty, so I had to read this one!

In this book we learn all about various birds and their beaks and what they are used for. I had a laugh at the way they showed the beak before showing us the birds that had a beak that did the thing they showed on the previous page. For instance for a beak with air conditioning (or at least it works that way) they showed a ventilator. For a beak like a straw, they showed a straw. I really liked that they went with that. And I had fun flipping to the next page to see what bird it would be! Some I could guess, others not so much.

HOWEVER, yes, that needs to be in caps. I did get a bit bored. I mean, the whole what is this bird was fun the first 3 times, but the whole book is that. I would have rather seen some other things to show us beaks. To tell us about beaks.

Plus, I just couldn't stop getting Pokemon flashbacks. What is this Pokemon?

But I did learn things, and I did enjoy the book because the parts about the birds was interestingly written and I just LOVE LOVE the art! Really, the art makes me give this book extra points.

All in all, I am happy I got the chance to read this.

I love the concept of this book! As a parent, educational books that engage children are my favorite. Rather than just listing out facts, the question-and-answer exchange in this book encourages children to use their noggins and think as well as learn. The illustrations are colorful and beautiful, and the bird facts are simple and accessible. This one is sure to be a family favorite!

I just finished "A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use" by Sara Levine, illustrated by Kate Slater. As a retired 5th grade science teacher, I wish I had had this book for my students in our bird unit. This book is set up as questions/answers. The author poses a question about bird beaks as a particular tool (net, scissors, etc.) and has an illustration that supports the question on one page. Then on the next page the question is answered in a short paragraph with illustrations of the various birds that would use that type of beak. For any young person that is new to birdwatching, this book givens them interesting information about the birds they may be encountering. It would also be great for an older birder to share with a younger person to get them involved in birdwatching for fun. There is also a list of other bird books for further reading to continue the exploration about birds. This book would be a great picture book for beginning readers and/or a read aloud with great vocabulary for all kids! This could generate great conversations and outdoor explorations for all generations.

The illustrations in this book are beautiful! My children loved that this book had you guess which bird (and it's beak) it was going to talk about. After guessing, the book gave facts about the bird, the lifestyle it has, and why the beaks are shaped the way they are. An excellent lesson in anatomical shape and physiological function. They enjoyed this book very much.

An absolutely brilliant book. Very well written with lots of visualisation to help children really grasp the concept. The illustrations are beautifully done and the birds are labelled well. I love the questions to introduce each bird and what they use their beak for. Great extension at the end on the evolution of birds beaks and simple enough to grasp but not necessary to read if your child/children aren’t ready. This would be great for the classroom and forest school sessions but also for bedtime reading. I would say ages 3 to 8 but younger children would love the illustrations and older children may like to read it to themselves.

As someone who has been an elementary teacher for 7 years, this book caught my eye because of its great cover design as I'm always looking for books that can caught the interest of my students. The book is well-written with interesting facts that while some may know, many will find new. The graphics seem selected purposefully and are directly relevant to each page. As an adult, this book was entertaining and enjoyable, and I think my students would rate it a 5/5. Looking forward to sharing this book with other adults who have or teach children - and may find the book catches their interest, too!

This book introduces the young reader to how birds use their beaks as we use tools. It breaks down the different type of beaks and provides and an example of a bird that has that type of beak and a few others and how that particular beak functions to help the bird forage for food. Most of the birds mentioned in the book can be found in the wild in the continental United States. However, a few of the birds would only be found here in a zoo. Most of the birds are listed generically but a few have their actually taxonomic name such as the Great Blue Heron.

This book enriches your children’s minds with its educative facts, explaining their specific features like their beaks and also giving some insight into how a few of them show their affections for each other. An enlightening, educative, fun, and interesting book, that entertains, teaches and delights your kids.

This is an easy 5 stars from me. Even as an adult reader, I enjoyed and gained some value from the educational factor provided in this book. Additionally, I thought that the illustrations/design was entertaining and quite honestly very pretty. I liked the pages about the bird types the best, especially the Toucan. I think this would make an excellent addition to a library or classroom reading collection. Also good for a home collection. It offers scientific, natural, and artistic value.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. I loved this cool book about birds and how they use their beaks. The format as a guessing game will work with kids.

This is such an informative and awesome kid's book! It's interactive, which is great for teaching kids and getting them engaged with the material, and there are so many different birds that are described herein. It also delves briefly into how evolution and Darwinism work. A lovely, colourful book for young readers!