The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Henkes, Kevin

Birds

32 pp. | Greenwillow | February, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-257305-6 $7.99
New ed. (2009)

(3) PS Illustrated by Laura Dronzek. This perfect picture-book collaboration is here offered as a smaller-size board book. In Henkes's plain, poetic text, a young girl muses on birds, their colors and sizes, their movements and mysteries. Dronzek's masterful acrylic paintings really deserve the larger picture-book format, but their strong compositions, rich colors, and confident lines make this an effective adaptation.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2009