It gets points for repetitive, predictable text patterns and for rhyming and for attractive illustrations that support the text while presenting students with examples of a wide variety of birds in different settings. It also gets points for providing extra information in the back for those who are curious. My complaint with the book is that it fails to use complete sentence structure. The repetitive pattern used consists of “Bird (preposition) a (noun), (verb).” I would have been so much happier with it if it had included, “There is a…” at the beginning of each, or even if each had started with “A” and the comma had been replaced with “is.” Providing young students with many examples of good grammar is part of language learning. This one sets an example of sentence fragments, which has a place in poetry, but I didn’t find especially suitable to this format.