Bloy Gets His Wings - COMING FALL 2022!
Bloy Gets His Wings is an entertaining coming-of-age story about a keystone species, the black oystercatcher, and sheds light on the many difficulties these unique birds face during their annual breeding season. Black oystercatchers live year-round on rocks near the water’s edge. Bloy’s story contains an important message about how critical the rocky coastlines are, not only to the black oystercatcher, but to all plants and animals that depend on a healthy ocean environment.
Bloy Gets His Wings is an entertaining coming-of-age story about a keystone species, the black oystercatcher, and sheds light on the many difficulties these unique birds face during their annual breeding season. Black oystercatchers live year-round on rocks near the water’s edge. Bloy’s story contains an important message about how critical the rocky coastlines are, not only to the black oystercatcher, but to all plants and animals that depend on a healthy ocean environment.
Bloy Gets His Wings is an entertaining coming-of-age story about a keystone species, the black oystercatcher, and sheds light on the many difficulties these unique birds face during their annual breeding season. Black oystercatchers live year-round on rocks near the water’s edge. Bloy’s story contains an important message about how critical the rocky coastlines are, not only to the black oystercatcher, but to all plants and animals that depend on a healthy ocean environment.
Can you love a red-billed bird the way you love a furry sea otter, an adorable harbor seal pup, or a magical monarch butterfly? By the end of this tale, Bloy will nestle his way into your heart. Bloy, a young black oystercatcher, wants to be independent, take care of himself, and, best of all, spread his wings and fly. But before he can fly, Bloy must survive as a tiny, baby bird on the rocky coastline of California.
Bloy Gets His Wings is an entertaining coming-of-age story about a keystone species, the black oystercatcher, and sheds light on the many difficulties these unique birds face during their annual breeding season. Black oystercatchers live year-round on rocks near the water’s edge. Bloy’s story contains an important message about how critical the rocky coastlines are, not only to the black oystercatcher, but to all plants and animals that depend on a healthy ocean environment.
Stephanie Turcotte Edenholm is author of The Perfect Place, a story about monarch butterflies. Her fieldwork with the California Central Coast Black Oystercatcher Project on the Monterey Peninsula enabled her to weave together a story she hopes will endear the iconic black oystercatcher to readers of all ages.
Cecelica Azhderian is an illustrator focused on the collaboration of art and science, the old and new, and bringing the outside in! Using a combination of traditional techniques and contemporary art, Cecelia seeks to enliven stories, especially those of lesser-known species such as the black oystercatchers.