Tag Archives: Birds

The Seven Chinese Sisters

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Kathy Tucker
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Product Description
(Ages 5-8) Once there were seven Chinese sisters who lived together and took care of each other. Each one had a special talent. When baby Seventh Sister is snatched by a hungry dragon, her loving sisters race to save her.
In Kathy Tucker’s delightful update of [...]

P.B. Bear’s Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Lee Davis
Publisher:

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P.B. Bear is counting the days until Christmas! Young children will love celebrating Christmas with P.B. Bear and his friends. They can: guess what’s inside the box from Grandma, watch as P.B. and his friends make snowballs into a snowman, count the stars on Christmas Eve, and follow P.B. [...]

Merry Christmas, Ollie (Gossie and Friends)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Olivier Dunrea
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Product Description
An endearing and beautifully rendered tale sure to be a family favorite.
It’s Christmas Eve. Gossie and Gertie hang their bright colored boots in the barn. Peedie and BooBoo hang their striped stockings in the barn. Ollie stomps through the snow. It’s not easy to [...]

Goose on the Loose (Phonics Board Books)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher: Usborne Books

Product Description
This illustrated easy reader blends a phonic-based text with a funny story and is designed to help children crack the reading code with ease.

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
The Pigeon really, really, REALLY wants a Puppy. C’mon, he’ll take good care of it! He’ll play tennis with it, and water it at least once a month! Will you let Pigeon’s dream come true?

Owl Babies

Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Martin Waddell
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
A tender tale to remind the youngest of children that Mommy always comes back.
“I want my mommy!” Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and they can’t help but wonder where she is. What is she doing? When will she be back? What scary [...]

Owl at Home (I Can Read Book 2)

Rating: (31 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Welcome to Owl’s cozy home.
Owl lives by himself in a warm little house. One evening he invites Winter to sit by the fire. Another time he finds strange bumps in his bedroom. And when Owl goes for a walk one night, he makes a friend that follows him all the [...]

Little Hoot

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: Chronicle Books

Product Description
It’s not fair! All Little Owl wants is to go to bed at a reasonable hour, like his friends do. But no . . . Mama and Papa say little owls have to stay up late and play. So Little Owl spends all night jumping on [...]

Sword Quest (Swordbird)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Yi Fan
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Wind-voice the half-dove, formerly enslaved, is now free, and Maldeor, the one-winged archaeopteryx, hungers for supreme power.
Can Wind-voice and his valiant companions—Ewingerale, the wood-pecker scribe; Stormac, the myna warrior; and Fleydur, the musician eagle—save the future of their world?
An exciting prequel to the New York Times bestseller [...]

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (Sandpiper Books)

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Dubose Heyward
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Book Description
The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.

Bella The Bunny Fairy (Pet Fairies)

Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Book Description
The Pet Fairies have one of the most important jobs in Fairyland! They work with their special pets to make sure that all animals find safe homes. But now Jack Frost has stolen the magical pets! Could they be lost forever?
At an Easter egg hunt, Rachel and Kirsty spot a [...]

Pigeon Has Feelings, Too!, The

Rating: (14 reviews)
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Publisher: Hyperion

Book Description
A Smidgeon of Pigeon by Mo Willems How does it feel to be a Pigeon? Well, the bus driver is trying to get him to act happy, but as we all know, this is one bird that is not going to be told what to do! Throughout this hilarious board [...]

What’s Up, Duck?

Rating: (1 reviews)
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Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Book Description
Little siblings of Duck and Goose fans rejoice! The stars of the bestselling Duck & Goose and Duck, Duck, Goose return in this board book for preschoolers, this time, to introduce basic opposites. Goose carries an ohso-heavy log, while duck easily balances a light-as-a-feather feather. Thistle is one [...]

A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Berkeley Breathed
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Happy Birthday to You! (Classic Seuss)

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Illus. in color. “The Great Birthday Bird guides us on a birthday trip. The multicolored excursion is a festive one.”–School Library Journal.  

Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Public Domain
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Book Description
Over the river Mama, Papa, and Baby Turkey embark for their vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast. But when a hungry boy and his dog start sniffing around, the turkeys have got to think fast before they become the main course!
Acclaimed artist Derek Anderson’s glorious autumn artwork [...]

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Rating: (173 reviews)
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Publisher: Hyperion Press

Book Description
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you’ve never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and [...]

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!

Rating: (37 reviews)
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Publisher: Hyperion

Book Description
It’s getting dark out, but one stubborn Pigeon is NOT going to bed! Toddlers and parents will love this interactive bedtime romp which puts readers back in the driver’s seat, deflecting Pigeon’s sly trickery as he tries to escape his inevitable bedtime. Will you let him stay up late?

Are You My Mother?

Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: P.D. Eastman
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
P.D. Eastman. While his mother is off looking for food, a baby bird hatches from his egg. Embarking on a hilarious, at times very touching, hunt for his mother, the little bird encounters a variety of creatures. Paperback. Amazon.com
This is the classic from [...]

Coming Of Hoole (Guardians Of Ga’hoole)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Book Description
Grank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother’s identity. It would give him [...]

Nate the Great Talks Turkey (Nate the Great)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat
Publisher: Yearling

Book Description
A giant turkey is on the loose! Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, hear the news on the radio. But Nate doesn’t want to take a case that everyone in town is on. Not even when Claude claims that he saw the turkey, [...]

River Of Wind (Guardians Of Ga’hoole)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic

Book Description
Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga’Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals [...]

And Tango Makes Three

Rating: (67 reviews)
Author: Peter Parnell, Justin Richardson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Book Description
In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango’s family is not like any of the others.

Pigeon Loves Things That Go!, The

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Hyperion

Book Description
A Smidgeon of Pigeon by Mo Willems In Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, the pigeon dreamed of driving the bus. In this board book, readers will see him emoting at the thought of driving a plane, a train, a car, and more, all in his deliriously over-the-top style.

Tackylocks and the Three Bears

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Helen Lester
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books

Book Description
How do you keep a crowd of energetic young penguins entertained? Put on a play, perhaps? But will they pay attention through an entire performance? If Tacky’s center stage, they might. Even in his flowing blond wig and little red “skipping shoes,” everyone’s favorite misfit [...]

Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, The

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Hyperion
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Sesame Street veteran and Emmy Award-winner Mo Willems returns with a fast, funny follow-up to Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!–only this time, the short-tempered pigeon faces his perfect foil in a “special guest star” duckling. In the previous Pigeon book, author and illustrator Willems expertly distilled the escalating emotions [...]

The Hatchling (Guardians of Ga’hoole, Book 7)

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Book Description
Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father’s destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange [...]

Who Says Quack? (Pudgy Board Book)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Jerry Smith
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Stellaluna

Rating: (91 reviews)
Author: Janell Cannon
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Product Description
Young children get much more than a charming telling of Cannon’s story of a baby bat. Amazon.com
Baby bat Stellaluna’s life is flitting along right on schedule–until an owl attacks her mother one night, knocking the bewildered batlet out of her mother’s loving grasp. The tiny bat [...]