Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

I had all of Holling Clancy Holling's books as a young man growing up in Canada and never ever forgot them. Now as an old man with a teenage son I wanted him to read, experience and enjoy HCH's writing. Also purchased was Paddle to the Sea. And will also buy Minn of the Mississippi and Tree in the Trail in due course. Beautiful books, well written, and exquisite and exceptionally beautiful drawings. All lovely stories.

What a book.

Sweet story.

Excellent book, highly recommended.

Lovely book. have not read it yet, but it looks like a very good book for little ones to sink their imagination caps in.

Contains very graphic, bloody and horrible full page illustrations of a whale hunt and slaughter, complete with dismemberment of the animal. Hideous, and very much not for young children. Also, commensurate with its publication date, it's racist. If you loved Paddle-to-the Sea and are looking for something similar, this ain't it.

A fabulous book for elementary geography. It is engaging and fun.

The Holling Clancy Holling books: Pagoo, Minn of the Mississippi, Paddle to the Sea, and Seabird, were my childhood favorites, especially Seabird,because of my love of the sea, and, because somehow I identified with the main character, Ezra. These books all have a similar format: They have a fictional story, a kind of historical or wildlife novel - very well researched, and appropriate for about third grade or older. They are large books: nine by 12 inches, and,when you open them they have a one page chapter on the left page, and a beautiful, full-size, detailed, water-color painting on the right page. There are also, at least one, and usually several, black and white drawings in the margins of the left page. Some of these marginal illustrations show scenes from the story and others contain technical or scientific information with notes. They are all beautiful and fascinating. I still enjoy rereading them at age 60. For pure artistic quality these might be the best children's books ever written! As illustrated books the are the equal of any I have seen, even including the stunning Rockwell Kent books like North by East. The information contained is also very thorough and interesting, especially to a kid who loves science and technology and history. Even at 70 years old the books don't seem dated. Some of these books have been reprinted in paperback and one reviewer mentioned the the colors didn't look as bright as in the originals. If true, this is very sad, but often the case in reprinted children's classics. It is probably best to by a used hard-cover copy. Make sure it comes with a dust jacket.

Bought this to supplement our homeschool. Very enjoyable.

These are amazing books a must buy all his books . Paddle to the sea our favorite. Kids love them.

I got "Seabird" as a gift when I was about 10 years old. I wanted to share it as a gift to a master oil painter who is a friend. The book is well researched by the author. The inter-generational story is compelling. Other books by Holling Clancy Holling are "The Tree in the Trail" and "Paddle to the Sea". Each story is cleverly contrived to sweep in a lot of educational content. Each is profuse with oil paintings and pencil drawings.