{"id":22524,"date":"2022-08-25T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=22524"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T23:05:25","slug":"coopers-book-report-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=22524","title":{"rendered":"Cooper’s Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month’s book is Salvador and Mister Sam, A Guide to Parakeet Care<\/em> by Gail Gibbons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sonia’s friend Salvador has two budgies, Sue and Sidney. His birds can do tricks, but they can’t talk. Sue and Sidney soon have a clutch of baby budgies, and Salvador promises Sonia she can have one as a pet. While they wait for the babies to be old enough to leave their parents, Salvador teaches Sonia about budgies and how to care for them. Once Sonia has a cage, she picks out her budgie and takes him home.
Sonia names her bird Mister Sam and teaches him tricks. When Salvador comes over for a visit, he is surprised that Mr. Sam can not only do tricks and step up, but he can talk, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cooper liked this book. She enjoyed the fun illustrations and thought the story was a great way to teach children about their pet budgies. The book was published in 1975, so some of the information was a bit outdated (blue ceres mean male, feed your budgie gravel, budgies can’t overeat). But there were a lot of good tips for keeping your budgie healthy and happy (roomy cage, lots of safe toys).
Cooper liked all the tricks the budgies could do, especially wearing a bell as a hat. She wasn’t thrilled that Sonia thought baby budgies were ugly – she hopes that Mister Sam will poop on her for that comment.
Cooper also loved that the author photo in the book shows Gail Gibbons with her pet budgie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month’s book is Salvador and Mister Sam, A Guide to Parakeet Care by Gail Gibbons. Sonia’s friend Salvador has two budgies, Sue and Sidney. His birds can do tricks, but they can’t talk. Sue and Sidney soon have a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,1],"tags":[7,2289,179,3761,6,3760],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22528,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524\/revisions\/22528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}