Baldy the American Eagle

Our family loved reading this together. Our children love animals and they loved learning about Eagles. It was fun to see their faces while reading this book and reading about the eagles flying and hunting etc. Fun easy read aloud for the family!

Great story following Bald Eagles as they continue to help grow their population and provides great information on their struggles and survival skills. Would be great as a read aloud for the Birds Science curriculum.

My 11 year old loves the book, but she isn’t sensitive to how nature works. It was very descriptive and informative, which is what we enjoy. She did ask why it ended the way it did. We just ended up having another conversation about life and death and how everything isn’t a fairy tale ending in real life. If you have sensitive little ones be prepared for the ending.

We don’t shy away from the real side of nature – animals eating other animals, hunting, and that not every story has a perfectly happy ending. My boys appreciated learning about bald eagles through this story. They love seeing the bald eagles at our zoo, and the nests. While this story does have some sad events, it ends on a hopeful note that the eagles will persevere and life will move forward.

This story follows Baldy and his mate as the raise their eaglets. Building a nest, hatching, struggling for food, etc building a connection with the eaglets. But then 2 pages before the end, the eaglets both die suddenly and descriptively. I understand it’s nature and real life, however, book left me and my daughter quite sad.