The book is factual, but in a random way. The premise for the story is Ms. Patel’s primary grade class is going to have a visitor from a raptor center at school that day. Ms. Patel introduces her class to eagles by using a one dollar bill. The students are familiar with the U.S. symbol of an eagle in the Great Seal on the back of the dollar bill. From there, chapter one is more about symbols than about eagles themselves. Chapter two is about the eagle visitor in the classroom from the raptor center. It also answers the title question by saying,” ‘Didn’t you say he was bald?’… The bald part of its name comes from the word piebald. It means ‘having white marks. ‘ ” (p.15)  Chapter three has the class learning  “bald eagles live only in North America.” (p. 18)

The story text is written in an irregular font to represent a person’s handwriting. The sidebars , which give most of the factual information in this book, are in a test font, much like TIMES.