| View Larger Image | Birdsongs | Hardcoverby Betsy Franco (Author), Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)
| List Price: | $16.99 | | Price: | $14.95 | | You Save: | $2.04 (12%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Margaret K. McElderry | | Page Count: | 40 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 09, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 637,778th |
|
FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780689877773
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
- Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
|
EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
The sky is quiet.The yard is quiet.The creek is quietly gurgling.Then...tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! A red-capped woodpecker starts his rap for the day. Next comes nine soft coos from the mourning doves, followed by the chipping of a flurry of sparrows. And on go the birdsongs throughout the day.Celebrate neighborhood birds in this poetic picture book, and count their sounds backward from ten to one, until all is quiet in the yard again. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
|
enjoyable for 2.5 year old by 1kidmomma (Houston, TX United States)  3 Stars
March 30, 2009
I was considering purchasing this book after checking it out at our local library. My son who is almost 3 years old really enjoyed the book, but my mother who is an avid birdwatcher noted that several birds were not identified correctly. This turned me off to purchasing the book, but the fact is that although it may not be accurate in naming the birds, this book was definitely a favorite for my son.
| |
Inaccurate Details by Janet Townsend (Hayward, California)  2 Stars
August 06, 2008
This book is beautifully written, as you can see from the other reviews, but is surprisingly inaccurate and uneven in identifying the birds throughout the book. The first entry is identified as a red-capped woodpecker, but there is no such species in North America, and perhaps not anywhere else. The beautiful illustration depicts a red-headed woodpecker instead. Don't know why it is called a red-capped woodpecker by the author. On another page, some sparrows are called chipping sparrows, which is a North American species, but the birds depicted are house sparrows. Didn't the author and illustrator collaborate at all? The mourning doves are depicted accurately, at least, but the chickadees on another page are called white-cheeked chickadees, and there is no such chickadee species. Is the author just trying to describe the chickadees, which do have white cheeks? Other birds are just named generically, such as a "gull" and a "thrasher." This is a delightful book overall, but it seems that anyone writing a book like this would have done a better job of naming the birds (which is easy to do) and in collaborating with an illustrator. It seriously lacks some of its educational value, and that's a shame.
| |
Worth Singing About! by Mary Hynes-Berry  5 Stars
September 24, 2007
Franco and Jenkin's Birdsongs is one of those picture books you can return to again and again and find something new each time. It could be especially rich for use in an early childhood classroom where the graphics and text offer a wonderful exploration of patterns--there are the patterns and sounds of the differnt birds shown on each page, the pattern of the day from dawn to nightfall, and the counting down number pattern shown by the number of birds, and repetitions of that species unique call and
| |
Plenty of facts about different kinds of birds and their habits by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 5 Stars
January 06, 2007
Betsy Franco and Steve Jenkins' BIRDSONGS celebrates neighborhood birds, reading like fiction but incorporating plenty of facts about different kinds of birds and their habits. From a tree of chickadees to the caw of the crow, kids are invited to learn the sounds of nature, and to understand bird habits.
| |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails: Patterns & Shapes . . . Naturally
by Betsy Franco (Author), Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds.Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places.
| 
| Birds
by Kevin Henkes (Author), Laura Dronzek (Illustrator)
Birds come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Birds are magic. Birds are everywhere. If you listen very carefully you will hear them, no matter where you live. And if you look very closely you will see them, no matter where you are. And if you can't go outside right this minute, you can always read this book!
| 
| A Seed Is Sleepy
by Dianna Hutts Aston (Author), Sylvia Long (Illustrator)
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
| 
| What Do Wheels Do All Day?
by April Jones Prince (Author), Giles Laroche (Illustrator)
Yeah, what do wheels do all day?
Well . . . they push . . . race . . . stroll . . . fly . . . whiz . . . and spin . . . all day long!
Simple, direct text, combined with brilliant cut-paper relief illustrations, captures kids’ fascination with “things that go” and opens their minds to the wide variety of wheels and what they do.
| 
| Beaks!
by Sneed B. Collard (Author), Robin Brickman (Illustrator)
|
|
|
