lost species

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Yesterday Kathleen asked about a "beautiful book with paintings of extinct birds."

My favorite is A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten. It really has more in it than birds, there are a few mammals and reptiles, but the lost feathered ones are well represented, the dodo on the cover is a fine example. Flannery wrote the tragic story of each extinct species and Schouten did the wonderful illustrations.

The book was published in 2001, so it might be a little hard to find but we still have a few copies in the Ijams gift shop.

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