A place for birds Written & Illustrated by Melissa Stewart and Higgins Bond

Stewart, Melissa, and Higgins Bond. A place for birds. Atlanta, Ga: Peachtree, 2009. Print. 32 pages
Age Group:	3 to 4 years
Book Format:	Picture Book
Annotation:	A great picture book to introduce the young reader to conservation as well as providing challenges to the more advanced young readers. Each set of pages is divided into 2 sections with colorful illustrations of birds in their environment.
Personal Reaction:	The main sections provide age appropriate prose that discusses basic living places for birds and how people help birds to live and grow. Each set of pages end with the same words providing repetition so the children can join actively in the reading. The second section on the set of pages provides information about specific birds using a higher level of words for the advanced reader.
Keywords/Tags:	Birds; Environment-Conservation-Wildlife; Habitats
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	The book works well for literacy skills as it grows with the reader. Due to it having both simple and complex text on the same page the reader can develop print awareness, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and print motivation.