The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Brown, Margaret Wise

The Dead Bird

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Harper | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-0289-31-7 $17.99
New ed. (1938, Addison-Wesley)

(3) PS Illustrated by Christian Robinson. This child-centered meditation on life and death was first illustrated in 1958 by Remy Charlip. Robinson's sensitive new mixed-media art, with its personality-rich quartet of young people (one boy wears a fox mask and tail for most of the story) and its city-park setting, elicits the children's deeply felt emotions and their actions to honor the bird's memory.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2016