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[ 책 소개 ]
* Robert F. Sibert Award 수상작
* YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
* BCCB Recommended Title
* CCBC Choice
* Washington Post Best Books of the Year
* John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young
* National Science Teacher's Association-CBC, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
* Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
* Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens
* School Library Journal 20 Outstanding Nonfiction Books
* Tri-State Reviews Committee Books of Note
"Claudette Colvin"으로 National Book Award와 Newbery상을 수상한 필립 후즈의 감동적인 논픽션입니다.
이 책은 해마다 캐나다 북극바닷가에서 남극에 가까운 남미 끝자락까지 약 9천마일을 왕복하는 붉은가슴도요새 B95에 대한 관찰 기록입니다. 이 새는 지구상의 모든 생물종 중에서 평생 동안 가장 많은 운동을 하는 새입니다. 매년 2월에 남미의 끝자락에 위치한 티에라 델 푸에고에서 출발해서 상상을 초월하는 장거리 비행을 한 후 북극해 연안의 캐나다 사우스햄턴섬에 도착하여 번식을 한 후, 늦여름에 다시 출발점을 향해 귀환하는 여행을 떠납니다.
이 새가 평생 비행하는 거리는 지구에서 달까지 거리의 약 1.5배인 32만 5천마일에 달하기 때문에 Moonbird라고도 불리웁니다. 장거리 여행 도중에 여러날 동안 자거나 먹지 않고 날 수 있으며, 몇몇 정해진 장소에 내려와서 먹이를 먹거나 휴식을 취합니다. 하지만 인간들에 의해 이 새들의 중간 기착지들이 개발되거나 자연이 훼손되어서 점점 이 새들의 장거리 비행이 어렵게 되고 있습니다. 이 책의 주인공인 B95라는 붉은가슴도요새는 1995년에 처음 발견되어서 다리에 빨간색 띠로 된 표식을 달게 되었으며, 그 후로 거의 20살이 되도록 장거리 여행을 계속 했습니다만, 이 기간 동안 붉은가슴도요새의 숫자는 약 80%가 감소해서 심각한 멸종 위기에 처하게 되었습니다.
이 책의 저자인 필립 후즈는 전 세계의 과학자 및 환경운동가들과 함께 이 새들을 멸종 위기에서 구하기 위한 활동을 하면서, 독자들로 하여금 이와 같은 놀라운 자연의 고귀한 생물종이 지구상에서 사라지는 비극을 막기 위해 우리가 과연 무엇을 해야 하고 무엇을 해서는 안되는지를 다시 한번 더 생각하게 해줍니다.
각 페이지마다 선명한 칼라 사진과 지도들이 함께 수록된 흥미진진한 논픽션 실화입니다.
튼튼한 | 닫기x |  What is 하드커버?
양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다.
판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.
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[ 서지 정보 ]
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0374304688
ISBN-13: 978-0374304683
책 크기 24.9 cm x 22.4 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon - and halfway back!
B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.
B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit - changes caused mostly by human activity - have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall?
National Book Award winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world’s most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it’s too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.
School Library Journal
Moonbird is a nickname scientists have given to a small Eastern shorebird known for both his unusually long life and his enormously long annual migration. Hoose intertwines the story of this bird's remarkable survival with detailed accounts of the rufa red knot's physical changes through its yearlong cycle of migrating from the bottom of the world (usually Tierra del Fuego) to its Arctic breeding grounds and back again at summer's end-a round trip of some 18,000 miles. Moonbird, known usually by the identifying label "B95" on his orange leg band, was first banded in 1995, when it was thought that he was at least three years old, and Hoose notes sightings of him through early 2011 just as the book was reaching completion. At that point it was estimated that over 20 years' time, B95 had flown "more than 325,000 miles in his life-the distance to the moon and nearly halfway back." The feat is particularly celebrated among bird scientists because this species is rapidly declining as humans use and misuse its feeding grounds and food supply. The threatened state of the species and the personal work being done by scientists and conservationists are strong themes throughout the book. Hoose describes his own experiences participating in study trips and introduces children and teens engaged in study, conservation, and lobbying projects in Canada, the United States, and Argentina. This deeply researched, engaging account is a substantial and well-designed package of information illustrated with handsome color photographs, ample maps, appended descriptions of the conservation work, and thorough source notes.
Review
"[A] deeply researched, engaging account…”--School Library Journal, starred
"Putting an actual beaked face to the problem of animal endangerment makes the story of the species’ peril all the more compelling, and only the truly hard of heart could resist cheering for B95 to make it through one more trip.”--BCCB, Starred
"With an effective mix of facts and conjecture, Hoose conveys B95’s wide experience, from the challenges of his first month in Arctic Canada 20 years ago to the physical demands of flying for three days straight. Hoose’s vivid prose and the book’s close-up photos give a sense of other red-knot talents, like fattening up for a long flight and sleeping while staying alert for predators. And there’s recent good news: B95 was photographed in late May, feasting on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware Bay. "--The Washington Post
"Hoose’s fascinating account concerns much more than this one bird.”--Horn Book, starred
"...beautiful and vivid…”--VOYA
"Hoose's stature as a preeminent nonfiction author combined with the high-interest animal hook will generate hearty attention and enthusiasm for this one.”--Booklist, starred
"Readers will appreciate Hoose’s thorough approach in contextualizing this amazing, itinerant creature…”--Publishers Weekly, starred
"Meticulously researched and told with inspiring prose and stirring images, this is a gripping, triumphant story of science and survival. “--Kirkus, starred |
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