A family card game (ages 8+) of skill and wonder for 2–4 players based on The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane.
This elegant and educational hand management game asks players to become conservationists and rescue the many birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds endangered list by building card tableaus across 7 categories within 8 rounds.
Conservationists can add or discard cards from their hand using cards placed on the game board, but must remain within the limitations of the scenario cards and action dice that change with each new turn. Conservationists must also be aware of various threats (and threat cards) to bird life in each turn, which can also deduct points from their final total. The player with the highest point total at the end wins!
Players will immerse themselves in the extraordinary art of Jackie Morris and the textual magic of Robert Macfarlane, all brought together by Michael Rieneck, a leading European game designer with over 60 published games to his credit.
The Game of Birds comes with:
- 140 Bird Cards
- 28 Threat Cards
- 6 Scenario Cards
- 6 Action Dice
A family card game (ages 8+) of skill and wonder for 2–4 players based on The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane.
This elegant and educational hand management game asks players to become conservationists and rescue the many birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds endangered list by building card tableaus across 7 categories within 8 rounds.
Conservationists can add or discard cards from their hand using cards placed on the game board, but must remain within the limitations of the scenario cards and action dice that change with each new turn. Conservationists must also be aware of various threats (and threat cards) to bird life in each turn, which can also deduct points from their final total. The player with the highest point total at the end wins!
Players will immerse themselves in the extraordinary art of Jackie Morris and the textual magic of Robert Macfarlane, all brought together by Michael Rieneck, a leading European game designer with over 60 published games to his credit.
The Game of Birds comes with:
- 140 Bird Cards
- 28 Threat Cards
- 6 Scenario Cards
- 6 Action Dice
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Aug 4, 2026 |
| Specifications | pages | 225 mm x 165 mm |
| Keywords | Nature Book; Robert Bateman; The Silent Unwinding; Glen Loates; The Backyard Bird Chronicles; Something About a Bear; Outside Magazine; National Geographic; Ornithology; Bird Reference Guide; The Cornell Lab; David Suzuki; The Life of Birds; Birds & Blooms; Dumb Birds of North America; The Serviceberry; Avian; |
| Illustrated by |
JACKIE MORRIS has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk, co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words. Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College. |
| Illustrated by |
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JACKIE MORRIS has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk, co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words. Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College. |