Description: Flip and flop heads, tails, and bodies to make 1,000 remarkable birds!
Brief description: Sara Ball is a prolific illustrator of children's books, including Abbeville's Mix-a-Mutt, Flip-o-saurus, Flip-a-Feather, and Flip-o-storic.
Review Quotes: A split-page format turns 10 birds into hundreds of avian chimeras in this mix-and-match portrait gallery. As in her equally fetching Mix-a-Mutt (2018), Ball uses empty backgrounds to showcase invitingly big, bright, exactly detailed animals that somehow seem to be smiling up at viewers or down at fuzzy offspring even though they're not anthropomorphized. Flipping heads, bodies, and hindquarters results in some odd combinations ("I'm a Snowy Owl--Ostrich--Bald Eagle bird"), but the subjects are placed, posed, and scaled so that . . . even the most unlikely transitions at least match neatly.--Kirkus Reviews (9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)