Hooray for Birds!

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From School Library Journal --------------------------- PreS-Gr 2—Bold electric colors flutter on each spread of this high-flying adventure that's perfect for young fans of Hooray for Fish! The art is rendered in gouache, and the text is hand-lettered in ink. Readers are invited to pretend they are various birds as pages provide playful rhyme and expressive action verbs. "Swoop up and down,/Swoop round and round./Scratch the ground with your feet./Catch a fly with your beak." Jovial illustrations surrounded in bright colors and enhanced with thick black outlines encourage audience participation. "The sun is up,/the sky is blue./Wake up and shout 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!' " Charming endpapers show various birds wide awake in the beginning of the book and fast a at the end, except for one bright-eyed owl that is fast a in the opening endpapers and wide awake as readers turn the final page. This is a great opening for extension activities with older readers on nocturnal birds. VERDICT Rhyming text and bright illustrations make this a superb choice for storytime groups. Pair it with Kevin Henkes's Birds, Jennifer Ward's Mama Built a Little Nest, and Jeremy Tankard's Grumpy Bird for a feathered friend storytime. Recommended for all picture book collections.—Melissa Smith, Royal Oak Public Library, MI Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) Review ------ Bold electric colors flutter on each spread of this high-flying adventure that’s perfect for young fans of Hooray for Fish! ... Rhyming text and bright illustrations make this a superb choice for storytime groups. —School Library Journal (starred review) If you’ve been sitting too long and too quietly through storytime, get off your perch and onto your webbed, clawed, or taloned feet and move...with the energy generated by this lively offering, don’t expect naptime to arrive on cue. —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) …[T]he creatures in "Hooray for Birds!" (Candlewick, 40 pages, $15.99) all but vibrate with brilliant colors. In gouache paintings on bright backgrounds, Lucy Cousins, the creator of the popular "Maisy" books, depicts swans and starlings, guinea fowl and cardinals, and a resplendent peacock. With each picture comes an exhortation for 2- to 5-year-olds to throw themselves into avian imitations: "Waddle like a penguin in the snow / Run like an ostrich, go, go, go!" —The Wall Street Journal An exuberant celebration of birds of all kinds...The cozy ending showing a baby parrot cuddling up close with Mama in his nest and the rear endpapers of ing birds are perfect for naptime. All in all, it's a great way to introduce bird behavior without lecturing—young children will feel like hopping, pecking, and soaring with these exuberant feathered friends. —Kirkus Reviews Maisy creator Cousins uses her signature brand of punchy, thickly outlined gouache paintings to introduce an active menagerie of birds....a rousing pick for reading (and chirping) aloud. —Publishers Weekly Twelve years after Hooray for Fish!, Cousins invites listeners to join in as part of the boisterous flock...The book’s large size and format, along with the second-person narration and bold illustrations, create a natural rtunity for children to become a physical part of the story. —The Horn Book Cousins’ exquisite portrayals of our feathered friends will delight fledgling readers and listeners and have them flapping their wings for more. —Booklist Online This sprightly picture book provides him and his cohorts with delightful introduction to the diversity and activity of these feathered friends. —San Francisco Chronicle This book will hold the attention of even the smallest bird-watchers, whether at story time or just before settling into their cozy nests to . —Washington Parent Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/0763692654/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )