National Geographic Angry Birds: 50 True Stories of the Fed Up, Feathered, and Furious

I have a five year old so who is completely obsessed with Angry Birds. He loves playing the games, uses gift money to buy stuffed birds, and would wear an Angry Birds shirt to school every day if he could. When I saw this book it was an obvious choice.We've had this book for about a month now and I can tell that it will be around for a long time. Yes, some of the information about the birds is a little bit more than a five year old can understand, but it's easy enough for me to simplify and summarize. As he gets older and can read more, I know he will enjoy this book on a different level. The pictures are excellent and we've had many good discussions about them. If we'd had this book when he was younger, he would have enjoyed just looking at them. In addition, this is a book that I enjoy reading to him because it's interesting and informative. I will gladly read any book to my son to encourage him to enjoy reading, even if that means reading the same book over and over again. But it's nice to have an occasional book that interests me as well.I think that this book is very well done and perfect for a child who likes Angry Birds or even just likes learning about the natural world.

I bought this for my 5-year-old son, who's very into Angry Birds and nature. We've been reading a few pages a night before bed and he loves it. It's got a ton of information contained in it, although some of it is a bit graphic for smaller kids. We kind of "edit" that content while we're reading it out loud to him.

Reasons this book is great (and why I bought a copy for a Kindergarten teacher, and third grade teacher as well):This book begins with birds that are annoying, or irritating. By the end, you are reading about birds that can actually kill people.My 8 year-old grandson asked me to read it several times.The photographs are amazing. The facts even more so!It has very funny information as well.It is an especially good book to read if you have/work with a child who has problems controlling anger. You are able to help your child understand degrees of anger, and how to stop before they are out of control.

My son received the NatGeo Angry Birds book as a gift while in kindergarten. It got damaged by a water leak so I bought a replacement on Amazon, now 2 years later. The original appeal was the Angry Birds angle; he used to play the game intensely. Now, he enjoys the book more as a source of scientific information, although I dare say the book is generally a tough read for his age group. Maybe it’s just me, but I find the sentence structure and word choice to be geared more for adults or Continentals.Good not great.

I got this book and the Angry Birds Playground book for my 2 kids. I was looking forward to the books and thought they would be similar in size and format. The 50 True Stories book is a paper back and smaller than the hard cover Angry Birds Playgrounds book. Both are great for my kids but they will not be side-by-side on the bookshelf.

I purchased this book for my six year old son who is obsessed with all things related to Angry Birds. While I definitely appreciate the educational aspect of this book it seems to be written for adults more so than children. There is a bio on each of the birds in the game and how they became so angry but it was a little much for a child. For example big brother bird is looking for his "lost childhood". I mean really, do I need to answer questions on the many ways in which a childhood can be ruined? There was also information on real birds in the Galapos Islands that have a tendency to abuse their young, so it discussed how it helps researchers get insight into why humans may become child abusers. Also a topic that is way too heavy for bedtime. Don't kids have enough to worry about these days? Just buy your young child an Angry Birds sticker book and save this for pre-teens and up.

And by "they", I mean my kids and my husband. My sons love Angry Birds. I bought this book for that reason. It lists the Angry Birds, their names and hobbies, things that make them mad, etc. It also has pages and pages of real life birds doing angry things. My husband loves reading this book to the kids. And they love him reading it to them!

This is a fun book, perfect for kids around 4-10 or so. It does a surprisingly good job of balancing the scientific facts about birds with fanciful backstories for the Angry Birds characters and a dash of the kind of gross-out moments that kids that age love. It's a great way to get your little Angry Birds fan interested in learning more about real birds, and to have a laugh together as you learn.

My sons love the Angry Birds games, and like most children like wildlife, but they also have a wicked sense of humour. This books satisfies all three interests. It is primarily a nature book, with National Geographic's usual high quality photography and well researched text. This has page after page of real life birds getting very angry, with very comical results. Small pictures of the angry birds appear throughout, but the main focus is real life birds. This is broken up though with some lovely full page photos of various angry birds, as well as a brief description, and a paragraph on what makes each bird angry. But while children are having a laugh at avian misbehaviour and enjoying learning about their favourite Angry Birds, they are also learning quite a lot about real birds, from scientific names, to identification, habitat and behaviour. This is the perfect book for a young ornithologist - or it may spark an interest in child whose only previous interest in birds was of the cartoon type. I also feel that this would be a perfect gift for an adult bird watcher. My sons are ages 4 and 7. They especially liked the picture of a pelican biting a man's butt, and ostrich chasing a man, and a bird that uses barf bombs, or vomit to defend itself. Another bird uses poop bombs which is certain to delight the younger reader. They also found pictures of a cardinal fighting it's own reflection very funny, as well as all the pictures of birds with their feathers ruffled and very angry expressions. The comic captions added entertainment to some photos, but do not appear in every photo. This is just well - some authors can try to hard to be funny and it can come off quite flat. Not every photo has a caption - but every one that does is good. they also loved the stories of avian theft. Children do love to read about other children or creatures misbehaving and this book has plenty of bad bird behaviour. On the downside - I would not give this to a child with any fear of birds. There are a number of photos birds attacking people and the text does describe serious injury to people - such as man losing an eye to an owl. This could be just the thing to give an already frightened child a full scale phobia. There are some photos that may upset children as well. My sons felt sorry for a badly emaciated cat being chased by birds and were a bit concerned by the picture of a mouse impaled on sharp spikes by a Northern Shrike. Thankfully, the text did say the bird kills its prey before impaling it, which calmed the children ( they accept animals eat other animals but don't really like suffering). There is another page though where Crested Bellbirds paralyze poisonous caterpillars as a bizarre form of guarding the nest, and my youngest wasn't thrilled with the idea that the caterpillars are still alive and suffering. There are also descriptions of parasitic birds killing off the other young birds in the nest one of which is quite graphic. For the most part this is a very lighthearted and highly entertaining look at birds, but there are some children who could be upset so parental discretion is advised. I would also note that the text of this book is in a small, stylised font, printed over coloured and patterned paper. There is a very light print of angry birds on a coloured background and I feel this is slightly distracting to the average reader, but will make this book especially difficult to read for any child suffering from dyslexia. Of course the parents could always read to the child, a wonderful way to keep a child struggling with the mechanics of reading interested in and enjoying books. Overall, I feel this is an outstanding book for children, and very good for adults as well. It's highly visual nature will captivate the most reluctant reader and it is highly entertaining to read. the humour and information on the children's favourite characters keeps the book interesting, while at the same time this is highly educational. I would highly recommend this for bird lovers young and old, as well as fans of the Angry Bird's game.

Bought this as a present for a friend who is an angry birds fan also an avid photographer so it fit the bill on both counts. I am also a fan of both and found it a good read would highly recommend for oneself or an ideal gift.

Info on Angry birds and on the real birds they're inspired by. The quality of Angry Birds combined with National Geographic and delivered by the always excellent Amazon.

enjoyed by grandson not a lot else i can say, delivered promptly and in good order, well packagedhow can you review a produict bought as a gift?

This book is a must have for informing younger readers factual information on our world. Nat Geo do other versions than birds and my grandson loves angry birds. I think it was good buy.