Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush
by Lynne Cherry
from Gulliver Green
Who Really Killed Cock Robin? (Eco Mysteries)
by Jean Craighead George
from HarperCollins
Citizens of Saddleboro are proud to say that theirs is the cleanest town around. So they can't ignore the mysterious death of their mascot, Cock Robin. Some people would like to blame the citizens themselves, but one boy-Tony Isidoro -- suspects there's more to the story.
Tony threads his way through a maze of clues: Among other things, the town park is overrun with trillions of ants; nights are quiet because there are no frogs singing; the nearby river contains a dangerous amount of an unknown chemical; and the town dump is emitting strange fumes. What does it all add UP to? It's an eco mystery all right, and it's up to Tony to figure out who really killed Cock Robin.
Mrs. Meyer the Bird
by Wolf Erlbruch
from Orchard Books (NY)
Backyard Birds of Summer
by Carol Lerner
from HarperCollins Publishers
"Focusing on birds that migrate to northern climes in the summer months, Lerner has created another lovely, informative title for budding ornithologists. As in Backyard Birds of Winter, she combines beautiful watercolor illustrations with lucid prose....A fine introduction; helpful tips on feeders, houses, and appropriate foods; and a list of suggested further readings are included. Careful scholarship and beauty of design make this a first purchase."--School Library Journal.
When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing
by Virginia Hamilton
from Blue Sky Press
Only a Pigeon
by Jane Kurtz
from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Extremely Weird Birds (Extremely Weird)
by Sarah Lovett
from Avalon Travel Publishing
Grandmother's Pigeon
by Louise Erdrich
from Hyperion
The mystical and the natural blend superbly in this first children's book by the accomplished literary novelist Louise Erdrich. The eccentric, well-traveled grandmother of two young kids decamps in mid-vacation, riding a porpoise to Greenland and leaving behind a trove of strange treasures and artifacts including a collection of bird's nests and three old eggs which hatch, marvelously, into passenger pigeons. Erdrich wields her Native American ancestry and her worldiness--Grandmother owns an original Klee--to give young readers a sense of the world's wonders and the wisdom of the elders, the old wisdom of the natural cycles that we are losing. A letter from Grandmother, promising to return, winds up this fetching tale.
On the Wing: Bird Poems and Paintings
by Douglas Florian
from Harcourt Children's Books
Carmine the Crow
by Heidi Holder
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
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