SuitabookAlison's fishing birds
Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown
- Reading
- Read one connected story at a time, pausing to identify each bird and discuss what Alison notices. Afterwards, compare the birds’ ways of finding food and living near water.
- Themes
- Attentive relationship with the natural world: Alison spends time watching birds and learns from encounters with them about their lives and the natural world around her. The book presents sustained attention to wildlife as a way of learning, wondering and developing concern for a particular place.
- Predation as part of bird life: Dippers and kingfishers are described catching small fish, with other fishing birds also included among Alison’s observations. The feeding scenes appear to explain characteristic bird behaviour rather than frame it as human violence or a moral conflict.
- Worth knowing
- Children sensitive to animal predation may appreciate knowing this beforehand.