Birds

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.

Perfect for the small dreamers and naturalists in your life, 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, 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 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 in this husband-and-wife collaboration.

Booklist said, "Together, the words and pictures create a book that will enchant preschool audiences again and again." Birds "will resonate with the youngest children," said School Library Journal.

Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 02/17/2009
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 11.54h x 9.56w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780061363047
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 128270 / Birds


Award: Buckaroo Book Award - Nominee
Award: Great Lakes Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Texas 2x2 Reading List - Recommended
Award: Beehive Awards - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award - Honor Book
Award: Ladybug Picture Book Award - Nominee
Award: Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/15/2008 pg. 52
Booklist 01/01/2009 pg. 76
Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2009
School Library Journal 02/01/2009 pg. 76
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2009 pg. 182
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2009
New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 17
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2009 pg. 33
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2010 pg. 14
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/01/2010 pg. 24
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2009 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Dronzek, Laura: -

Laura Dronzek is a painter whose work has been exhibited nationally. Her picture books include Moonlight, by Helen V. Griffith; It Is Night, by Phyllis Rowand; and White Is for Blueberry, by George Shannon.

Henkes, Kevin: -

Kevin Henkes has been praised both as a writer and as an illustrator and is the recipient of the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his lasting contribution to literature for children. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon; Caldecott Honors for Waiting and Owen; two Newbery Honors--one for Olive's Ocean and one for The Year of Billy Miller--and Geisel Honors for Waiting and Penny and Her Marble. His other books include Sun Flower Lion, A Parade of Elephants, Chrysanthemum, and the beloved Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives with his family in a house in Madison, Wisconsin.