As the sun comes up, birds awake.  This beautiful picture features a different bird on each spread, using spare text and focusing on each bird’s call.  Each page is large and the background colors get progressively lighter and lighter, along with the imagined sky.  Crisp illustrations of each bird jump off each page.  Because, like all of Genechten’s work, this was published in Dutch originally, some of the sounds the birds make do not conform to American norms.  This does not bring down the quality of the book, however, as each type of bird is so specific.  The spare text, large clear illustrations and font choices, as well as the focus on animal sounds, will make this a lovely choice for group sharing, and children will enjoy pouring over the beautiful illustrations at a more individual pace as well.