You Nest Here With Me
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This lyrical bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and to sleepy children, safe in their beds.
As a mother describes how different species of birds nest, secure and cozy with their mama birds, she tucks her own child into bed with the soothing refrain -- "you nest here with me" -- easing her little one and readers alike to slumber. Accompanied by beautiful artwork by award-winning illustrator Melissa Sweet, mother and daughter Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple have combined their poetry writing and love of birding in this board book that is sure to become a bedtime classic.
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Frequent mother-daughter collaborators Yolen and Stemple, whose previous books include Not All Princesses Dress in Pink, offer a gentle rhyming bedtime story that spotlights 14 birds' nesting habits and habitats. At bedtime, a human mother lulls her own "nestling" to sleep with verses that flit from bird to bird, before concluding with a reassuring refrain: "Pigeons nest on concrete ledges,/ Catbirds nest in greening hedges,/ Tiny wrens, in shoreline sedges./ You nest here with me." Caldecott Honor artist Sweet's (A River of Words) mixed-media illustrations portray familiar types of birds (pigeons, swallows, owls) alongside lesser-known killdeer, grackles, and coots, capturing their urban, seaside, wetland, or forest environs in bright swaths of watercolor paint and soft pencils. Some vocabulary (boles, tors) and observations ("Killdeer, once their eggs are laid,/ Perform a broken-wing charade") invite further investigation; concluding notes provide explanatory details ("To lure predators away from their eggs, killdeer act like easy prey by faking a broken wing") and other information about each bird. A well-crafted and informative window onto the world of winged creatures. Ages 4 8.
