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Title: Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O'Connell George, Barry Moser ISBN: 0-15-202325-9 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For hummingbird lovers of all ages
Comment: As a reading specialist I regularly review new children's books. As soon as I saw this one, I thought of my mom. She's a sharp-minded 87-year-old who loves poetry, art and hummingbirds. She gives the artistry, both words and watercolors, of this book an easy five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Educators Recommend
Comment: One warm, February morning a tiny hummingbird began building a nest in a ficus tree on the patio of George's home in Claremont , California . For the next two months George kept a "hummingbird journal" of the daily happenings. "I still marvel," she writes, "over the surprising range of emotions one small bird and her family evoked: awe, worry about possible dangers, and laughter when the baby birds teetered on the edge of the nest for their daily flight practice."
George has expertly taken those emotions and woven them into this delightful collection of poems. In "Visitor" we are introduced to the small mother. She is nothing more than a "spark, a glint, / a glimpse of pixie tidbit." In the next poem, however, we see her bravado and determination in action. She becomes a "feathered missile streaking by," ordering the humans off her patio, out of her territory.
Soon two eggs are visible in the "cobweb ship" of a nest. Once hatched, the nestlings, "raisin black / an wrinkled," settle in. In "Flight Practice," George does a superb job at allowing the reader to visualize the drama taking place: "Four curled up feet grip / the top of the nest. / Two tiny motors / rev up for the wing test."
Moser is in top form here. His realistic, incredibly detailed watercolor paintings are small jewels in themselves.
The poems and illustrations combine wonderfully to allow readers the opportunity to vicariously witness nature up-close.
Highly Recommended.
Reviewed by the Education Oasis Staff
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Title: Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems by Kristine O'Connell George, Kate Kiesler ISBN: 0395876117 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Welcome, Brown Bird by Mary Lyn Ray ISBN: 0152928634 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean (NEWBERY HONOR BOOK) by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Feathers: Poems About Birds by Eileen Spinelli, Lisa McCue ISBN: 0805067132 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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