This beautifully illustrated book leads the reader through the birdsongs, and counting 1 - 10.

We love a bird book over here.

I enjoyed meeting all the neighborhood birds and I liked the uniqueness of counting backwards. But counting "sounds" on paper did not appeal to me. I think children, like me, would have much preferred counting the birds.

I love the collages of Steve Jenkins, but I find my favorite ones are those he wrote by himself or with his with Robin Page, When he collaborates with others, the book just doesn't have that WOW factor picture book perfection.

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I liked this book for many reasons, first the illustrations are lovely. Secondly, there is a wonderful feathery fact index in the back that introduces young readers to facts about birds, and yes, it is also a counting book as you count backyard with the bird songs. Pair it with Kevin Henkes Birds book for a nice unit on birds for younger readers.Birds

A woodpecker, gull, crow, robin, thrasher, and humming bird, along with mourning doves, sparrows, chickadees and ducks, give out their calls during the day, only to have them copied at night by the mockingbird. Cute story for the three year old, introducing her to the various "bird calls" that only a grandfather could mimic. Of course she loved it, and had to "parrot" along. (Like how I got another bird into the review, even though it wasn't mentioned in the story?) Clever, huh?

This counting book (of sorts) chronicles bird activity in one area from sunrise to sunset, beginning with one woodpecker that raps 10 times on the tree, mourning doves that coo 9 times, and on down to a hummingbird who offers a tiny "tzik" as the sun sets. Readers will get a sense of the calls crows, gulls, robins, a thrush, and more send out as they enjoy Steve Jenkins' gorgeous cut paper illustrations.

This is a very good book about birds and their song. Not too over whelming for the beginner bird watcher. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Ellie read this to us during morning time...krb 10/30/17

Great book...I think a slightly older child would especially love this. My 3 year old did, my 2 year old was unimpressed. I think a 4 or 5 year old would be perfect. Especially think your girls would love this one Brandi

Nice way to introduce a day of birding and introduce eleven common bird species. It was good to end with the mockingbird which often sings in the evening. Steve Jenkins always does good to excellent illustrations and those in this title are collages. However, the tabby cat stalking some birds didn’t look much like a tabby in my eyes.

Beautifully illustrated. The pictures look more like paintings.

Little ones will learn what that robins say tut, thrashers say chuck, mallards say quack, etc.

The information pages in the back of the book is great for older children.

this book teaches the proper names for birds, along with using onomatopoeia to teach the birdsongs, and also teaches counting backwards from ten!