Every Day Birds, written by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, reviewed by Todd Erickson

Summary: Although Every Day Birds is basically told in verse for very young or beginning readers, it's a book students can grow into, as their is short informational blurbs about each bird a the end of the book for students to dive deeper. Due to the rhyming text, this one would work well as a read aloud. Birds are presented randomly, but they appear in alphabetical order in the simple glossary of informational text.

Straight Talk for Librarians: A basic avian primer told in simple verse, the colorful illustrations of common everyday birds should be easily recognizable to even very small children. The simple rhymes should hook young readers and could even be used to launch a writing lesson for young students to make up their own backyard nature poem. Teachers could use the book as a kickoff to a walk in nature to do some amateur birding to identify some of their avian neighbors.