Awarded the AAAS/SUBARU SB&F PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in SCIENCE BOOKS and
5 other children's book awards!
"Three words. 3D. Printed beak. Oh come on, you aren't impressed? Well,
check out the back matter on this book and you will be. It's insane!"
--School Library Journal
Beauty and the Beak is the incredible true story about an injured wild
bald eagle who received a pioneering, 3D-printed beak--and made world
news! Follow Beauty close up and in photographs, from the moment she
uses her baby beak to emerge from her egg, through her hunt when she
uses her powerful adult beak to feed herself, to the day her beak is
illegally shot off, leaving her helpless. This brave and uplifting story
continues through her rescue, into the months of engineering her
3D-printed prosthetic beak and intense hours of her beak surgery, to the
moment she takes the first drink of water by herself with her new beak.
Beauty and the Beak captures the spirit and courage of this amazing
bird and America's national symbol--whose species was nearly wiped out
by human activity, only to be restored and thriving because of
environmental conservation and human compassion. This book will resonate
with those who have their own stories of other animals endangered or in
need, and humans, from young children to military veterans, in need of
prosthetic limbs, who are being given new lives with state-of-the-art
devices.
The book includes expanded information about bald eagles as a top
predator species, their near extinction in most of the U.S., their
successful reintroduction back into the wild, and efforts to conserve
this critical raptor species today.
