Hooray for birds!

Lucy Cousins

Book - 2017

A variety of avian friends describe a day in the life of a bird.

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Subjects
Genres
Stories in rhyme
Picture books
Published
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Lucy Cousins (author)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
ISBN
9780763692650
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Review by Booklist Review

Colorful birds of many sizes, shapes, and sorts abound in this companion to Cousins' Hooray for Fish! (2005). The lively text invites readers to imagine themselves as busy birds throughout the day, from dawn to nighttime. From a crowing rooster to a hooting owl, each double-page spread features one or two types of birds showing off the hallmarks of its species. Some are fairly common: a woodpecker goes peck, peck, peck! and starlings swoop up and down, swoop round and round. Others are more exotic; a flamingo shows how to stand very tall on just one leg. A few of the birds are named (penguin, ostrich), though most are not. The brief text is in, more or less, rhyming lines, while the page design, featuring large, brightly colored birds placed against backgrounds filled with rich colors, heightens the liveliness. Cousins' exquisite portrayals of our feathered friends will delight fledgling readers and listeners and have them flapping their wings for more.--Enos, Randall Copyright 2017 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Maisy creator Cousins uses her signature brand of punchy, thickly outlined gouache paintings to introduce an active menagerie of birds. "Can you imagine.../ just for one day.../ you're a busy bird?/ Yes, a bird! Hooray!" Cousins begins, deploying vivid portraits of roosters, starlings, woodpeckers, and other birds, set against bold backgrounds of orange, green, magenta, and other saturated colors. A vibrant palette and upbeat rhymes keep the energy level high from start to finish, and the action-oriented statements offer clear encouragement for readers to mimic the birds' sounds and movements (as best they can, anyway). "Stand very tall on just one leg," writes Cousins as flamingo stands smiling. "Say 'Cluck cluck!' and lay an egg." The energetic mood softens slightly as Cousins makes her way from a rooster's morning crowing to an owl's nocturnal hoots, but all in all it's a rousing pick for reading (and chirping) aloud. Ages 2-5. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 2-Bold electric colors flutter on each spread of this high-flying adventure that's perfect for young fans of Hooray for Fish! The art is rendered in gouache, and the text is hand-lettered in ink. Readers are invited to pretend they are various birds as pages provide playful rhyme and expressive action verbs. "Swoop up and down,/Swoop round and round./Scratch the ground with your feet./Catch a fly with your beak." Jovial illustrations surrounded in bright colors and enhanced with thick black outlines encourage audience participation. "The sun is up,/the sky is blue./Wake up and shout 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!'" Charming endpapers show various birds wide awake in the beginning of the book and fast asleep at the end, except for one bright-eyed owl that is fast asleep in the opening endpapers and wide awake as readers turn the final page. This is a great opening for extension activities with older readers on nocturnal birds. VERDICT Rhyming text and bright illustrations make this a superb choice for storytime groups. Pair it with Kevin Henkes's Birds, Jennifer Ward's Mama Built a Little Nest, and Jeremy Tankard's Grumpy Bird for a feathered friend storytime. Recommended for all picture book collections.-Melissa Smith, Royal Oak Public Library, MI © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Horn Book Review

Twelve years after Hooray for Fish!, Cousins invites listeners to join in as part of a boisterous flock. Can you imaginejust for one dayyoure a busy bird? Yes, a bird! Hooray! The simple (verging on trite) rhyming text creates a jaunty, quick pace for the youngest audiences (The sun is up, the sky is blue. Wake up and shout cock-a-doodle-doo!), while saturated gouache paintings with bright colors, strong contrasts, and thick black outlines allow each feathered specimen to burst off the page. Starting with the early-rising rooster, the book showcases the wide variety of bird species and activities (flying in the sky, hopping on the ground, pecking at a tree, swimming in the water) and touches on various methods of moving, eating, and making noise until it closes out the day with the whoo! whoo! of a wide-eyed owl. As a special treat, the endpapers open with a spread of all the birds featured and close with those same birds sleeping, but careful observers will notice the owl, which sleeps in the beginning and wakes at the end. The books large size and format, along with the second-person narration and bold illustrations, create a natural opportunity for children to become a physical part of the story. julie roach (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

An exuberant celebration of birds of all kindsmostly recognizable species (chicken, flamingo, swan, parrot, starling, penguin, ostrich, peacock) but some imaginary.This is vintage Cousins, although absent her abiding protagonist, the lively mouse Maisy. The tone is set with the opening spread: "Can you imagine / just for one day / you're a busy bird? / Yes, a bird! / Hooray!" Cousins' unique handmade style, characterized by a bright, highly saturated color palette and scratchy black outlines, together with the charming rhyming narrative in easy-to-read bold handwriting, will give preschoolers lots of inspiration for exploring bird behaviors and imitating bird sounds. It's easy to imagine using this as a starting point for a bird-themed activity with a group. The text exhorts readers to "Flap your wings" and "Hop, hop, hop"; to "swim along / and / stretch / up / your / neck"; to "Scratch the ground / with your feet," and "Catch / a / fly / with / your / beak." The cozy ending showing a baby parrot cuddling up close with Mama in his nest and the rear endpapers of sleeping birds are perfect for naptime. All in all, it's a great way to introduce bird behavior without lecturingyoung children will feel like hopping, pecking, and soaring with these exuberant feathered friends. (Picture book. 2-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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