{"id":780,"date":"2013-10-17T20:02:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=780"},"modified":"2016-12-06T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:33:40","slug":"infant-toddler-storytimes-october-15-more-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2013\/infant-toddler-storytimes-october-15-more-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant Toddler Storytimes…October 15 – More Birds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Tuesday, we read about birds, birds and\u00a0MORE BIRDS<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Of course, there’s nothing like reading a book about a baby bird\u00a0who is learning how to fly.\u00a0 Joyce Dunbar’s classic, Baby Bird<\/strong> is a fantastic read for infants and toddlers, the illustrations are bright and bold with just a hint of the eccentric.\u00a0 The baby bird in the story makes a first attempt…”flop, flop, flop…” and falls!\u00a0 Baby bird eventually succeeds but not before he runs into a\u00a0squirrel, a frog, and a scary cat!\u00a0 We had fun using our arms as wings as we flap, flap…flapped<\/em> with baby bird in the story.\u00a0 We moved from learning how to fly to finding the right mommy in Whose Chick Are You?\u00a0<\/strong>by Nancy Tafuri.\u00a0 <\/strong>Clear,\u00a0colorful\u00a0i<\/strong>llustrations of the large white egg and the birds (a hen, a duck, a goose and a sparrow who don’t know whose egg it is) make this a wonderful choice for infants.\u00a0 The egg eventually cracks open to reveal a furry, grey baby chick, but\u00a0that little chick doesn’t know who mommy is and hen, duck, goose and bird certainly don’t know!\u00a0 Finally a\u00a0beautiful swan floats by and claims the baby chick as hers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Older Toddlers are the perfect audience for Kevin Henkes’ book Birds<\/strong>.\u00a0 Beautifully illustrated and accomplished with elegant restraint, Henkes’ book captures the physical and behavioral characteristics of birds – their various colors, chirrupy songs and group behaviors, all brought to\u00a0life through visual and verbal metaphors.\u00a0 He also touches on every\u00a0child’s desire to fly like a bird.\u00a0 The little girl who peers at\u00a0the birds through her window acknowledges she can only pretend to fly, but\u00a0she is confident in her ability to sing like\u00a0a\u00a0bird.\u00a0 A\u00a0wonderful ending.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0We rounded things out with a So Smart video about pet sitting…of course one of the pets was a parrot.\u00a0 I asked the toddlers to identify which of the\u00a0pets was a bird – the parrot, the rabbit or the hamster.\u00a0 I think the parrot won, although someone did vote for the rabbit.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Want to read about even more birds?\u00a0 Check out the following:<\/p>\n

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