For the Birds

titles about birds

Young Adult
Backwater – Joan Bauer

Juvenile Fiction
Dillon Dillon – Kate Banks
The House of Wings – Betsy Byars
Angelo – David Macaulay

Picture Books
Beaky – Jez Alborough
Duck, Duck, Goose? – Katya Arnold
The Kingdom of Singing Birds – Miriam Aroner
Baby Bird's First Nest – Frank Asch
Dawn – Molly Bang
The Paper Crane – Molly Bang
Ernest and the Big Itch – Laura T. Barnes
A Duck So Small – A.H. Benjamin
Loveykins – Quentin Blake
Fly Away Home – Eve Bunting
We're Going to Feed the Ducks – Margrit Cruickshank
Baby Bird – Joyce Dunbar
Grandmother’s Pigeon – Louise Erdrich
When Agnes Caws – Candace Fleming
The Old Man and His Birds – Mirra Ginsburg
Bird Talk – Ann Jonas
A Bird and His Worm – James Kaczman
A Mother for Choco – Keiko Kasza
The Happy Egg – Ruth Krauss
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! – Kathryn Lasky
Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird In Your Hair! – Harriet Lerner & Susan Goldhor
Peep! – Kevin Luthardt
City Birds – Heather MacLeod
Lottie's New Friend – Petra Mathers
Albert – Donna Jo Napoli
You’re Somebody Special, Walliwigs! – Joan Rankin
Welcome, Brown Bird – Mary Lyn Ray
Bonjour, Lonnie – Faith Ringgold
Our Yard Is Full of Birds – Anne Rockwell
Time Flies – Eric Rohmann
The Birds of Killingworth: Based on a Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Robert D. San Souci
Rooster Crows – Rajnhild Scamell
I Wish I Were-A Bird – Eve Tharlet
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! – Mo Willems
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog – Mo Willems
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy – Mo Willems

Nonfiction
On the Brink of Extinction: The California Condor – Caroline Arnold
Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing the Birds – Jim Arnosky
Crinkleroot's 25 Birds Every Child Should Know – Jim Arnosky
Watching Water Birds – Jim Arnosky
Birds, Nests, and Eggs – Mel Boring
Beautiful Blackbird – Ashley Bryan
Beaks! – Sneed B. Collard III
Cradles In the Trees: The Story of Bird Nests – Patricia Brennan Demuth
What Makes a Bird a Bird? – May Garelick
Wings On the Wind: Bird Poems – Kate Kiesler
Bizarre Birds – Jonathan P. Latimer & Karen Stray Nolting
Raptor! A Kid's Guide to Birds of Prey – Christyna & Renι Laubach & Charles W.G. Smith
Amazing Tropical Birds – Gerald Legg
Birds – Sally Morgan
Amazing Birds – Alexandra Parsons
Backyard Birds – Jonathan Pine
Crows! Strange and Wonderful – Laurence Pringle
Everything You Never Learned About Birds – Rebecca Rupp
Nacho and Lolita – Pam Muρoz Ryan
Wild Birds – Joanne Ryder
Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World – Pete Salmansohn & Stephen W. Kress
The Spotted Owl – Alvin, Virginia & Robert Silverstein
Exotic Birds – Marilyn Singer
Feathered Dinosaurs – Christopher Sloan
Classifying Birds – Andrew Solway
Protecting Our Feathered Friends – Dean T. Spaulding
National Audubon Society First Field Guild: Birds – Scott Weidensaul
Birds Build Nests – Yvonne Winer
Wild Wings: Poems for Young People – Jane Yolen

Biography
Paisano, the Roadrunner – Jennifer Owings Dewey

titles last updated August 28, 2008

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