Rating: 
Summary: Terrific! Well-written about hawks,humans and Central Park
Review: Ms Winn presents the story of red-tailed hawks that appeared in New York City and their unlikely selection of a posh condo building to locate their nest. She does a tremendous job of weaving birds, birders, and others who played key parts in putting this story together. This is not a book just for serious birdwatchers; I keep an eye on my birdfeeders, but have no great interest in doing more than watching. The book does address the adaptability of wildlife to urban areas (nesting in skyscapers, dining on pigeons and rats) with the availability of parkland nearby. Red-Tails in Love is quite readable, with brief encounters with the likes of Woody Allen, Mary Tyler Moore, and an astronomer key in the vital process of reading bird bands from afar. The book would be an excellent choice for anyone who wants a good read, nonfiction, with an element of suspence and lots of humor.
Rating: 
Summary: Cute!
Review: Please, enough already with the schmaltz.This is a nice enough book for the armchair naturalist and those who haven't a clue as to what N.Y.C. is and ain't.
Mary Tyler Moore and Woody Allen indeed, enough with the name dropping. This is Kaffee Klatch stuff and although a nice enough read it truly just goes on and on. For interesting non-fiction about nature and The Big Apple (as out of towners might call Manhattan) try Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson or Kim Todd and Claire Emery.
Rating:
Summary: Wings Aloft in the Big City
Review: This book achieves what every thoughtful instructor strives for: to teach without letting the student know they are being taught-to make learning a seemingly effortless pleasure. Winn teaches the reader about Red-Tailed Hawks, as well as a good deal of observation practices, behaviors and helpful tips for making wildlife notations; all in the context of a thoroughly enjoyable story. The world of Central Park opens up and becomes an inviting (and ironic) man-made natural habitat. Best of all, Winn shows us how the wildlife in Central Park united a village of caring people in the heart of a vast city. I recommend "Red-Tails In Love" to anyone who likes entertaining and informative reading, but especially to those who also love nature.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book is an awesome must read. It talks about the beauty of birds and nature from a bird enthusiast's point of view. My mom recommended it to me, and I am very glad that I took her advice. You should take mine and read this wonderful book
Rating:
Summary: Charming and Delightful
Review: This book is everything a book should be. Funny, sad, entertaining, well written and truly captured my attention. I didn't want to put it down. I only wish that I had been there!
Rating: 
Summary: Summary of 'Growing Up Green':
Review: This comprehensive study explores the relationship of environmental advocacy to the philosophy of education and holistic theories of child development. The author begins by outlining the ecological, economic, and cultural dimensions of the environmental challenge and then applies this discussion to a critique of three philosophies of education: back-to-basic, progressive, and holistic. He then describes an ecologically sensitive approach to education in middle childhood, emphasizing the role that narrative inquiry, the study of place and form, and earth literacy can play in promoting an ecological awareness in children.
Rating:
Summary: Fabulous Book
Review: This is a great book about hawks in Central Park and the strange and wonderful people who have arranged their lives so that they can spend all day viewing them. A must read.
Rating:
Summary: Feather-friendly
Review: This is an awsome book and I strongly recommend it. Winn brings her readers into her community of dedicated birders in a fantastically written drama of a red-tail hawk trying to settle down. If you've never been part of a loving bird community you'll enjoy this book. She makes you feel as part of the Regulars. Even better, it's true so you can use the helpful maps in the book to travel to the places mentioned where various sitings occured.
Rating:
Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This was one of the best books I have read this year. I'm not a bird watcher by any means, and, despite the drama that I'm obviously missing, do not intend to become one. Nevertheless, I was captivated and moved by the story of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who builds a nest in Central Park, and then builds another, and then builds yet another. I thought the writing and story-telling were superb. The way Winn intertwined the story of the hawks with the story of the people watching the hawks, complete with celebrity references (if you blink you'll miss Glenn Close), was excellent. (It did not occur to me until the acknowledgments that one of the reasons the story-telling was so good is that the author is married to a film-maker, who offered advice on how to keep the story moving.) Perhaps because I'm just not into birds generally, I was less interested in those parts of the book that did not relate to the hawks. Of these sections, the more memorable birds were the saw-whet owls and the woodpeckers. But the prose about these birds is not as moving as the prose about the hawks. Or, perhaps the hawk story is just so well-done it makes the other birds seem, if I can resort to anthropomorphism, pedestrian. The book is obviously a labor of love, and it was a pleasure to read.
Rating:
Summary: Irresistible Story, Excellent Writing
Review: This wonderful book welcomes in its readers as surely as, for the several years it describes, the hawk watchers of Central Park welcomed in anyone who passed by, shared a pair of binoculars, and got instantly hooked on the amazing scene of a family of hawks growing on the ledge of a Gold Coast apartment building in Manhattan. Ms. Winn's precise, quick-reading prose will convert any reader to a greater, renewed, or first appreciation for wildlife in Central Park in particular, but, even more, for what nature will have going on anywhere. There are several stories here, all fascinating: the cycle of bird life in and migration through the Park; Pale Male and his families; and those humans, so normal in their individual quirkiness, who take up his cause through the years. Ms. Winn's particular and not easy skill is to let all these stories move themselves, and therefore sweep the reader along with all the quiet excitements, joy, and sadnesses they convey. A book to buy and keep always.
| 
