The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Dover Children's Classics)

Sweet stories to share your love of birds with your children.

Fabulous old fashioned oral reading with great educational value! Great for homeschoolers and parents who want to really educate their children on birds in a delightful way. The knowledge of birds are woven so much into the story line that it is caught without much effort. The technical readers read well without distracting from the story. We use it for our multi-handicapped blind daughter that functions at about 7-8 year old. She is captivated by the story. We follow up the stories with a CD of bird songs. Highly recommend it.

I guess this is what you would call a living book?It teaches you so much about many different birds without feeling like it's doing anything more than telling a story.My 6 year old loves for me to read this, but she is a book lover already.I have paired it with out Zoology Flying Creatures of the 5th Day cirriculum and the National Geographic Backyard Bird Guide. Reading this made me want to learn more.I borrowed it from the library for many weeks before buying so I was aware there weren't beautiful color pictures. That is why I often pair it with the field guide so we can see colored pictures also.

I bought this book as a gift for a neighbor child who enjoys watching birds at the feeder between our houses. When it arrived from Amazon, I skimmed through it, and had mixed feelings. The stories are wonderful to read as an adult but seem a bit dated, and, while still an enjoyable read, may be less than engaging for many children. The illustrations are fairly interpretive and rendered in black and white, so the book doesn't function as any kind of quick reference. But as a learning tool for increasing a child's acquaintance with familiar backyard birds, it's very good. Paired with a good quick-reference field guide or chart, this could make for many happy hours of satisfied bird-watching.

A classic. My kids love sassy little Jenny Wren. Be aware that she does call others "stupid" a few times in this book and "Old Mother Nature" replaces God as the creator. We talked about it.

This has to be the best way to introduce birds to children! I read the stories to my 7 and 5 year olds and they love it! However I wish I would have coloring pages to go with the bird stories to keep kids occupied as they listen, because they are a bit lengthy stories sometimes. But we love it when we see in real life the birds we read about. And wrens will always be Jenny wrens to my kids now 😉

I bought this book for my 1st grade son and couldn't put it down myself! I thoroughly enjoyed this literary nature study. The language isn't difficult for young readers, and yet in no way does it talk down to them either. My son learned so much that I didn't even realize he had retained. Many times now we will be walking outside and he will point out something in nature that we read about in the book. Delightful book for all ages!

I’ve been reading one chapter a day to my kids at lunch and they look forward to it everyday. Cute story where Peter Rabbit learns about birds and so do we!

Bought the print.pictures were terribly faded out.all the captions were full of print errors.I m deeply disappointed for buying this...

Kindle版はイラストがカラーだと書いているレビューがありましたが、実際にはモノクロでした。白黒だと分かっていたら買いませんでした。残念です。

This book is an inexpensive bad reproduction of a wonderful classic. I am very unhappy with the quality as the font is very small, there are many errors, and the illustrations are missing. I have since ordered another version. Don't waste your money on this poorly reproduced version.

The pictures on the cover and back of the book are absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately, the illustrations inside are a very grainy black and white. Not pleased.

This is one of our family's favourite books. Natural science based, the author tells the story of these delightful characters, while at the same time teaching about the natural environment, mating habits, distinguishing features, habitats, migration habits, etc. The children don't even realize they're learning, and the characters pull you into their stories. A living book, if there ever was one.