The Story of the Kakapo : Parrot of the Night

by Philip Temple

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
14	None	1,448,257	None	None
A kakapo chick, Kairiki, who lives on Stewart Island, manages to escape from a wild cat, find a new home for himself and slowly learns to survive alone.

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

matatoki, Catherine.S, Dreama867, Rowenya, ksherry6, KerithS, MissReas

▾Tags

2011 (1) animal (1) animals (3) birds (1) children (1) children's (2) endangered species (1) fiction (2) kid (1) kidlit (1) LL11.1.3 (1) New Zealand (5) NZ native bird (1) picture book (1) read in 2009 (1) Shelf One A3 (1)

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

No reviews

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (2 possible)

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

A kakapo chick, Kairiki, who lives on Stewart Island, manages to escape from a wild cat, find a new home for himself and slowly learns to survive alone.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Kairaki, a young male kakapo chick, escapes a wild cat and finds a new home for himself alone on Stewart Island. Slowly he learns to survive alone, then later he dances and calls out in the moonlight to find a mate. Includes facts about the kakapo.

Haiku summary