Age 4 - 8

As the sun rises over the quiet yard, a woodpecker taps 10 times on the pine tree. Mourning doves on the telephone wires coo to each other 9 times; sparrows chirp 8 times as they race to the bird feeder, and so on through the day until the hummingbird makes 1 tiny sound and zigzags away for the night. In this extraordinarily beautiful book, Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins uses collage and cut paper to create each carefully detailed illustration of the birds and their surroundings, while Betsy Franco’s imaginative, lyrical text gives us a glimpse at each bird and its own unique sound. A final page in the back offers a few extra “feathery facts” for those interested in learning more about each bird. Your young bird-lovers will be enraptured by this lovely book as they count down the birdsongs through the day.