Birds Hardcover – Picture Book, February 17, 2009

WOW! What a great book! It is educational, creative, and inquisitive all at the same time. It covers colors, sizes, imagination, artistic expression, literary/poetic language, and asks science questions like "Where do birds go when it rains?" This would be a GREAT book to start a unit on birds with toddlers age (2-3 is my guess). Students could cut out bird images and sort them by color, determine the distinguishing features of birds (versus other animals), explore tactile baskets filled bird themed items (feathers, nest, eggs, seeds, 3D birds, etc.), match bird photos to their names, listen to each of those bird's calls, go bird watching with a checklist, count the birds and graph them, make a bird diorama with all the things that species needs to live, do all sorts of creative writing/art/crafts, and even answer that question in the book about what birds do when it rains ;-) Heck you could even spin off from this book to do a similar units on mammals, reptiles, fish, insects, amphibians, etc.My only issue with the book, it that it is difficult to see the difference in size between the flamingo and the rest of the birds, because the flamingo is off the page, but I do not think that is enough to lower my 5/5 star rating.

The artwork in this book is beautiful. The text is sweet and simple. It's a nice book for toddlers of either gender.

Love this book and give it to new parents. Delightful drawings of birds and great text. Highly recommend as someone who loves children, birds, and books.

This is a beautifully written and illustrated book about birds. It has simple, lyrical language, making it a pleasure to read and listen to. The pictures are marvelous--simple, but beautiful, with nice balance and bright colors. This is a book children will gravitate toward!

Cute illustrations! Sweet, simple, but still interesting story. My 1 year old loves this book!

I liked the art. It’s a pretty good book. Just some general info about birds. Not their names though, which might have been fun - kids like to recognize things. At the end it brings the POV back to the little girl who wants to fly, but can’t, so she sings (like a bird) instead.

Baby has been obsessed with birds lately, so I bought this book, and, to my delight, he loves it. The writing doesn't talk down to kids and encourages them to imagine. The art is simple and sweet and engaging for babies. I prefer a different art style but I'm still giving this 5 stars because my son loves it and hey, it's about him when it comes to kids' books!

This is one of my 16-month-old son's top three favorite books. He loves birds, so that could be one reason why he likes it so much. But it could also be that he likes birds because of this book since we have been reading it to him for several months now. He really likes the pictures and hearing the story (that we embellish with tweets and hoots, of course). He is very active and only sits still for a few books, and this is one of them. I really enjoy reading this book to him, it is very cute and creative, with great pictures. I definitely recommend this book to anyone.