Publisher's Synopsis
This book is part of the "Life Cycles" series, a collection of books intended as first natural history books for children. Each book takes a familiar plant or animal and traces its life cycle from conception to adulthood, explaining and illustrating each stage of its development. The series is designed with two levels of text: large type captioning the artwork for younger readers and more detailed text for older children. There are suggestions for simple methods of keeping or investigating the animal or plant.;Based around the colour artwork, this book looks at the life cycle of the swallow - its nest-building habits, mating, egg-laying, the hatching of the young and their eventual flight from the nest, culminating in migration. The reader is introduced to biological terms which are explained in the glossary.;John Williams was consultant on the "Project Ecology" series for Wayland and has written numerous titles in the "Life Cycles" series.
