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Birds

by Kevin Henkes

A child’s close-up view of birds

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book

    Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book

  • Critical praise

    Booklist praised the book’s words and pictures

    Praise for the combined words and pictures: “Together, the words and pictures create a book that will enchant pr...

AlbakiReads Editorial

A child’s close-up view of birds

Watching from her window, a young girl notices the birds’ colors, shapes, sizes, and movements, then lets those observations lead into imaginative questions about clouds and flight. The book brings together careful attention to the natural world and a child’s playful speculation, with singing offering a small point of connection between the girl and the birds. Its picture-book format keeps the focus on what can be seen, wondered about, and imagined in an everyday encounter with nature.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young children beginning to notice and name details in the natural world
  • Families and educators seeking a picture book about birds, observation, and imagination

Themes

Birds and natureObservation and curiosityImaginationConnection between people and animals

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Book overview

Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book

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. This acclaimed, concept rich picture book by the celebrated team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek is just right for the very youngest reader.

Perfect for small dreamers and naturalists, this critically acclaimed picture book is from the award-winning husband-and-wife team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek.

With a fine eye for detail, a girl observes and describes birds--their sizes, their colors, their shapes, the way they move and appear and disappear. She imagines what it would be like if clouds looked like birds, or if she could ask the birds questions. Though she can't fly, the girl can do one thing birds do--she can sing. Vibrant and lively paintings accompany a text pitched precisely to preschoolers.

Birds encourages:

 

  • observation
  • curiosity
  • appreciation of nature
  • love for animals
  • imagination
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