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Today at the Bluebird Cafe: A Branchful of Birds
It's all-you-can-eat at the Bluebird Café,
A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet,
with berries and snails
and a bluebottle fly,
a sip of the lake
and a bite of the sky.
A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems that capture the unique personalities of birds from backyard blue jays to toucans and cockatoos. Come sweep through the sky with an eagle, compare table manners w...more
A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet,
with berries and snails
and a bluebottle fly,
a sip of the lake
and a bite of the sky.
A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems that capture the unique personalities of birds from backyard blue jays to toucans and cockatoos. Come sweep through the sky with an eagle, compare table manners w...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
February 27th 2007
by Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Have you ever considered birds? I mean, we see them, admire them, but have you ever stopped to think what they might have to say? Deborah Ruddell did and presents their thoughts in this collection of 22 poems.
What I thought: I've liked Deborah Ruddell ever since I read her A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk. Reading her first collection was highly enjoyable. These poems are full of imagery and surprises. Perhaps not as humorous as those in her second collection, but satisfying all the same. My fa...more
What I thought: I've liked Deborah Ruddell ever since I read her A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk. Reading her first collection was highly enjoyable. These poems are full of imagery and surprises. Perhaps not as humorous as those in her second collection, but satisfying all the same. My fa...more
This is great read-aloud poetry. Clever, witty verse with vivid imagery. The whimsical illustrations compliment the poems beautifully.
Fun to read, cute illustrations. Kids rate it 100 stars.
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This is a cute book of bird-themed poetry with some great, colorful illustrations to go along with the poems. For children and adults who are bird lovers, I'd recommend this book!
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Some of these poems are funny, some are a little more serious, and many lend themselves to developing them into stories--Maddie is plotting a few already!
Fun poems that introduce students to a wide variety of birds. The poems say so much about the birds in such few words. (Choice)
This was recommended to me...Ilook forward to reading it to my chitlins.
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