2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner

A group of funny, colorful birds will amuse children as they learn the concepts of up, down, tall, small and high.  Readers are introduced to the comic antics of the birds in three separate
chapters.  Children will delight in the simple text and the colorful drawings. Long’s use of few words and repetition will allow the beginning reader to feel confident in their emerging skills.  With less than thirty words used throughout the book, it is the illustrations that carry the story lines and in a way that will make the reader smile  and want to reread the stories.  The book is an interactive, lift-the flap style, printed on heavy weight pages (similar to board books).  School and public libraries may still want to reinforce the three lift-the-flap pages though, as this book will get a lot of circulation.