Book Description
for Once, a Bird by Rina Singh and Nathalie Dion
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
In a still-snowy landscape, a robin lands on a seemingly bare branch and finds a pale pink, barely-there bud. There are other signs spring is emerging as the bird takes to the sky: It flies over greening farm fields and rivers with remnants of ice in flowing water. The robin eventually lands again, this time in a decidedly urban environment. It goes from a public fountain to a tree outside an apartment building. Inside the building, over the course of the days and weeks that follow, various residents watch through their windows as the bird builds a nest, lays and cares for its bright blue eggs, and tends to its hatchlings. The charm of this wordless book is in the gouache, watercolor, and digital art through which the story and changing seasons unfold, and in the way it deftly captures the simple joy that a bird—and nature—offers young and old alike. (Ages 2-5)
CCBC Choices 2024. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024. Used with permission.