Birds
Author(s): Kevin Henkes

In what the New York Times Book Review calls a perfect book, a little girl watches birds from her window and dreams she can fly. A board book edition of the critically acclaimed picture book from the award-winning husband-and-wife team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek. An ALA Notable Book.

Birds will resonate with the youngest children, said School Library Journal. With a fine eye for detail, a girl observes and describes birdstheir sizes, their colors, their shapes, the way they move and appear and disappear, and how they are most like her. She imagines what it would be like if clouds looked like birds, or if she could ask the birds questions. Though she cant fly, the girl can do one thing birds doshe can sing. Vibrant and lively paintings accompany a text pitched precisely to preschoolers in this husband-and-wife collaboration. This board book edition offers a fresh perspective and a new point of view to very young children. Booklist said, Together, the words and pictures create a book that will enchant preschool audiences again and again.

Review(s):
The words and pictures create a book that will enchant preschool audiences again and again.
Words and pictures perform a perfectly choreographed dance here.
The child voice in this charming story is just right and will resonate with the very youngest children.
Birds trust[s] the intelligence and imagination of young children, and thats what makes this a perfect book.

Beehive Award (Utah) nominee, ALA Notable Childrens Book, Texas 2X2 Reading List

ISBN:9780061363054