This is the newly-released educational children's picture and story book, Bienvenido the Bird-watching Cat.  Bienvenido introduces 8 common backyard birds and their common behaviors, along with one surprise visitor.  Test your knowledge with 9 memory games while practicing counting.  Read more in a new window...

Product Description:  This superb quality children's book makes a great gift for introducing families to bird-watching, or for promoting STEM education in classrooms.  It features a glossy hardcover and 72 pages of content on heavyweight, glossy pages, that include 160 high resolution photos.  Perfect for home-school and Montessori.

This package includes the popular story, Bienvenido, the Bird-watching Cat, along with our Backyard Bird Feeding Kit.  The combination allows families and classrooms to recreate scenes from the story outside their own windows.  

Bienvenido, the Bird-watching Cat is hardback with 72 heavy-weight, glossy pages with 160 high resolution photos of birds and animals. Bienvenido, an indoor cat, introduces common backyard birds to the feeders in his yard, and "welcomes" each, with their diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, and feeding habits. 
The author is a Professor of Mathematics and a life-long nature lover besides. The story is crafted around research-backed learning strategies. The overall approach is inquiry-based (Bienvenido's motto is Explore Curiously!), with ample opportunities for differentiation (e.g., there is plenty for everyone ages 4-8), developing associations, retrieval practice, and counting (for our younger readers). We use visualization of both desirable and undesirable behaviors, and associate one with each new backyard visitor.
Our bird feeding kit includes:
3 types of bird feeders
several weeks worth of food for each feeder*
corn for furry visitors

For details about the feeders, and bird foods, click here.

Our gift set includes a copy of the book, Bienvenido, the Bird-watching Cat, combined with two adorable plush beanie babies.  The first is a cat, designed to resemble, Bienvenido, the Bird-watching Cat, wearing a bandana bearing his name.  The second is a cardinal, the first bird featured in the story, and the bird shown with Bienvenido on the cover. 

Young children love to cuddle these plush toys, while listening to the story and looking at all the cat & bird pictures.  Together with the book, these beanies round out your gift to young nature lovers.  Beanies also available individually in our Featured Collections. 

Click here for details of the book (all in new windows), here for details of the cat plush toy, and here for details of the cardinal plush toy. 

Recreate scenes from the new educational children's bird-watching book, Bienvenido the Bird-watching Cat.  This bird feeder kit makes a great gift for families and classrooms.  Attract birds to your backyard or schoolyard and promote STEM education for home-school, Montessori, and traditional schools.

Includes all items shown: Quality cedar bird feeder with safflower seeds, nyjer feeder with seeds, suet cage with suet cake, and an ear of corn for the squirrels.

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