Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo

This is the true story of how an unwanted cockatoo achieved international fame as a YouTube sensation, television star, and scientific study subject, all by rocking out to the beat of his favorite tunes. Snowball tells the story with his own spirited psitticine spin. But everything he says is true, including how he inspired the World's First Bird Dance-Off Contest, became the subject of a groundbreaking study about music and the brain, and has now gone into teaching children how to dance and doing charity work.Ages 813

Sy Montgomery's 20 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. She is the winner of the 2009 New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, the 2010 Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given by the ASPCA for Humane Education) and dozens of other honors.

Painter Judith Oksner studied liberal and fine arts in college and in graduate school and taught art for many years. Over time she converted from a full-time teacher to a full-time painter. She illustrated Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo by Sy Montgomery, also from Bauhan Publishing.