Why read Cockatoos?

Book cover of Cockatoos

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Professor Dupont is charming, dotty and intelligent, but perhaps not clever enough to handle his troupe of noisy cockatoos when they decide to play a very adventurous kind of hide and seek. As the Professor searches his house for the missing birds, the young reader is invited to play the…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Cockatoos as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Patrick George

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As a young boy, I always loved Quentin Blake. Although Quentin Blake’s style is very different from mine, I have always admired how much expression and humor he can convey in so few marks.

This book taught me that you can learn to count in a fun way, with a story that is not ostensibly about counting, but actually, that is what you end up doing. I love the element of surprise on each page. I have always loved books that challenged me through pictures, making me spot differences or hidden elements on the page.

From Patrick's list on pictures that say a thousand words.