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K-3
Having fallen from the nest in the middle of the night, frightened Baby Bird hooks up with Little Frog, who helps him realize he's not as helpless as he thinks. Young children will find their own feelings mirrored in Baby Bird as he takes this brief foray away from his mama. The rounded, pen-and-computer illustrations are also fittingly childlike.