Georgie and the Baby Birds

Georgie the Ghost #13

by Robert Bright

Georgie, a kind and helpful ghost, relocates a family of robins when the wind destroys its nest.

27 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1983

About the author

Robert Bright was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1902 and passed away in San Francisco in 1988. He spent his childhood in Europe and completed his education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton University.

His vocations included those of newspaper reporter in Baltimore and Paris, art and music critic in Sante Fe, New Mexico, teacher in Boston, and novelist. Believing that "the imaginative child in the imaginative man is fortunately never far away," Mr. Bright has delighted in writing his numerous books for children. Many of these star Georgie, the friendly little ghost who first appeared in 1944 and has been charming young readers on both sides of the Atlantic ever since.

Reviews

[Abigail · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of four miniature Georgie picture-books published specifically for pre-schoolers in 1983 (the other three are: Georgie and the Ball of Yarn , Georgie and the Runaway Balloon , and Georgie and the Little Dog ), Georgie and the Baby Birds features a much simpler text than the nine "traditional" volumes in the series, as well as more colorful illustrations, done primarily in yellow and red. The story itself concerns a family of robins whose nest is endangered by an unwise choice of location (all the way at the end of a spindly branch), and Georgie's efforts to safeguard it...

As with Georgie and the Buried Treasure , the last full-size Georgie picture-book to be published, which I read at the same time as this, I was a little underwhelmed by this offering, finding the story and artwork mostly mediocre. This was the only one of the miniature Georgie titles to be found in my library system's collection, and perhaps that's for the best... it isn't inspiring me to track the others down.