Book Description
for A Nest in Springtime by Belle Yang
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A pair of charming, bilingual (English/Mandarin Chinese) board books explore two seasons, as well as counting and colors. In A Nest in Springtime, a pair of ducks build a nest. “How many eggs?” The narrative counts all the way up to eight. The eggs hatch and seven ducklings go swimming. “Seven?” A turn of the page reveals the eighth duckling just emerging from its shell. “Adding Mama and Papa makes nine and ten.” In Summertime Rainbow , a family of rabbits finds green grass, yellow honeysuckle, a red peony, and a purple flower that turns out to be a butterfly. And that “spray of blossoms in the sky”? A rainbow! Yang’s conversational narrative is set against appealing illustrations that feature a predominance of softly curved shapes (the round-bottomed bunnies are particularly winsome) and colors that are bold but not too bright. A pronunciation guide for the Mandarin Chinese is included at the back of each book. (Ages 1–3)
CCBC Choices 2013. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2013. Used with permission.