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Ziefert, Harriet

Birdhouse for Rent

32 pp. | Houghton/Lorraine | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-618-04881-1 $$15.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Donald Dreifuss. This story from the perspective of a now-vacant birdhouse discusses its past tenants (industrious wasps, disruptive chipmunks, a chickadee family) in the year since it was put in the ground. Amazingly, Ziefert sparks genuine empathy with her fictional memoir of an inanimate object. The large-scale illustrations shimmer with color, and the close-ups of images inside the birdhouse effectively involve the reader.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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