Books about Birds for Children
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1TomeBoy
I found a new book yesterday: Hummingbird Heaven: a counting poem.
The illustrations are well-done. Several species of hummers are shown, and the poem is one that children will request over and over.
The illustrations are well-done. Several species of hummers are shown, and the poem is one that children will request over and over.
2frahealee
I have dozens, so I will haul them up from the basement and list them as they surface.
One of my favourite books as a child, I was able to find a few years back for my own daughter to enjoy. Although the title might be offputting, Never Talk to Strangers, it was beautifully illustrated with imaginative rhyming verses. Different animals were represented on each page, to coincide with each stanza, but the best part was searching for the 'hidden' bird found in different places on each of the different pages of the book. Not really camouflaged like Where's Waldo or even Busy Town with Huckle, but a small colourful sweet bird, the same one throughout. So much fun when read nightly, and enjoyable to trace for children just learning to draw.
One of my favourite books as a child, I was able to find a few years back for my own daughter to enjoy. Although the title might be offputting, Never Talk to Strangers, it was beautifully illustrated with imaginative rhyming verses. Different animals were represented on each page, to coincide with each stanza, but the best part was searching for the 'hidden' bird found in different places on each of the different pages of the book. Not really camouflaged like Where's Waldo or even Busy Town with Huckle, but a small colourful sweet bird, the same one throughout. So much fun when read nightly, and enjoyable to trace for children just learning to draw.
3frahealee
1. The Adventures of Ol' Mistah Buzzard by Thornton W. Burgess
2. The Adventures of Sammy Jay by Thornton W. Burgess
3. The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess
4. The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. Burgess
5. The Adventures of Mr. Mocker by Thornton W. Burgess
6. The Musicians of Bremen (rooster)
7. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
8. Horton Hatches the Egg
9. Little Red Hen
10. Owly by Mike Thaler (there are many options, so this is ours)
11. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
12. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
I won't bother with touchstones, as I own them all or have read them all to my children years ago. Children's Literature changes so quickly that nothing I have is recent or what's considered 'contemporary'.
2. The Adventures of Sammy Jay by Thornton W. Burgess
3. The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess
4. The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. Burgess
5. The Adventures of Mr. Mocker by Thornton W. Burgess
6. The Musicians of Bremen (rooster)
7. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
8. Horton Hatches the Egg
9. Little Red Hen
10. Owly by Mike Thaler (there are many options, so this is ours)
11. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
12. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
I won't bother with touchstones, as I own them all or have read them all to my children years ago. Children's Literature changes so quickly that nothing I have is recent or what's considered 'contemporary'.
4frahealee
I dug out three birding books either given to my children by my parents or by myself;
Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley
How to identify birds, using the clues in feathers, habitats, behaviors, and sounds.
Finding Your Wings: A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers by Burton Guttman
(Peterson Field Guides)
An Audubon Handbook: Eastern Birds by John Farrand, Jr.
* this must have been my dad's because one of the pages is tagged for a cormorant and I've never seen one (the other bookmarked pages are for woodpeckers and killdeers)
I think it's important for children to know by example what matters to their parents and grandparents. The books that are handed down, the digging in the sand to make castles, the digging in dirt (with fingernails black for days) to find worms for a baby robin that turned up on the back patio table, the photographs in an album long before digital images made it fashionable to boast about every food you've ever eaten or every pet you've ever seen in a sunspot or every trip you've ever taken, to strangers who mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Sorry, bit of a rant there, but how will kids know what matters to their bloodline if they're immersed online from dawn 'til dusk, afraid to unplug from perpetual data? My children and I share something in common; that being stuck indoors is punishment, so make the outdoors count! David Suzuki says 30 minutes outdoors daily can cure mental illness (some) so who am I to dispute a scientist of his calibre?! =D
We came home from an all night drive in theatre once, after a full moon flooded our front entranceway to expose an immense toad, and my four sleepy children squatted beside the van to watch this little guy for at least twenty minutes before one fell over asleep. Those are the memories I value. When they bring me a flower they found already fallen off its stem or discarded in a parking lot, when they take pictures on their phones of things they'd never show their friends but email to me (like frogs, turtles, birds, etc.) … that is when I know the impact is deep and abiding.
Yes, I write poetry, and am likely 'barmy' as C.S. (Jack) Lewis' brother Warnie says so eloquently in the film Shadowlands (1993), but I wouldn't have it any other way. A lifetime spent looking for little moments that most others miss, is a life well lived.
Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley
How to identify birds, using the clues in feathers, habitats, behaviors, and sounds.
Finding Your Wings: A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers by Burton Guttman
(Peterson Field Guides)
An Audubon Handbook: Eastern Birds by John Farrand, Jr.
* this must have been my dad's because one of the pages is tagged for a cormorant and I've never seen one (the other bookmarked pages are for woodpeckers and killdeers)
I think it's important for children to know by example what matters to their parents and grandparents. The books that are handed down, the digging in the sand to make castles, the digging in dirt (with fingernails black for days) to find worms for a baby robin that turned up on the back patio table, the photographs in an album long before digital images made it fashionable to boast about every food you've ever eaten or every pet you've ever seen in a sunspot or every trip you've ever taken, to strangers who mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Sorry, bit of a rant there, but how will kids know what matters to their bloodline if they're immersed online from dawn 'til dusk, afraid to unplug from perpetual data? My children and I share something in common; that being stuck indoors is punishment, so make the outdoors count! David Suzuki says 30 minutes outdoors daily can cure mental illness (some) so who am I to dispute a scientist of his calibre?! =D
We came home from an all night drive in theatre once, after a full moon flooded our front entranceway to expose an immense toad, and my four sleepy children squatted beside the van to watch this little guy for at least twenty minutes before one fell over asleep. Those are the memories I value. When they bring me a flower they found already fallen off its stem or discarded in a parking lot, when they take pictures on their phones of things they'd never show their friends but email to me (like frogs, turtles, birds, etc.) … that is when I know the impact is deep and abiding.
Yes, I write poetry, and am likely 'barmy' as C.S. (Jack) Lewis' brother Warnie says so eloquently in the film Shadowlands (1993), but I wouldn't have it any other way. A lifetime spent looking for little moments that most others miss, is a life well lived.
