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Fly With the Birds: A Word and Rhyme Book
Fly With the Birds A Word and Rhyme Book Author:Richard Edwards, Satoshi Kitamura (Illustrator) Edwards (The Forest Child) and Kitamura (When Sheep Cannot Sleep) follow a child through an ordinary day in this well-organized, imaginatively designed vocabulary-builder. Each spread includes a triptych of the blond narrator's daily activities, a poem and a gatefold flap that lifts to reveal the poem's final line. On the flap appears a group of... more » words and pictures that can be matched to the illustrations.
When the child imagines escaping a traffic jam, for instance ("Stuck in the traffic, we creep and we crawl,/ Buses and cars hardly moving at all,/ So closing my eyes, I say two magic words.../ Hey, presto! A bus that can fly with the birds!"), the vocabulary list sends readers on a search for a bicycle, van and trailer; the first picture shows passengers sitting miserably on a stalled bus, but the concealed picture is of a bus hoisted into the air by a flock of birds.