I think this makes a good book for early readers, just as it is suggested. It has a lot of words that students will learn as sight words (basic verbs like went and said, other words like up, down, stop) and many other common words that students learn early on (bird, kitten, dog, plane). This book was repetitive, but I think that would be helpful for early readers to see the same words over and over. There was an illustration for each part of the text, which would help a young reader in figuring out the words.


As far as being a story book, I didn't like it was much. It was repetitive. The story was also a little sad and scary, but some kids might like that. The illustrations were okay. I especially liked that you could see some emotions on the baby bird's face so you could talk about that with the story. Lastly, It was a little long for a read for a very small child.