Are You My Mother?

Eastman, P. D. (1960). Are you my mother? [New York], NY: Beginner Books; distributed by Random House.

Format: Hard Cover

Age: 4+ 

This classic tale opens with a mother bird sitting on her egg in her nest. The egg starts to move around so the mother bird goes to get food for her new baby before it is hatched. However, the egg hatches while the mother bird is gone and the baby bird falls out of it's nest looking for its mother. The baby bird goes on a mission looking for his mother, he asks a cat, a hen, a dog, a cow and even a boat and an airplane. The final thing he runs into is a snort, which places him back in his nest. Where his mother is returning with food for her new baby. This book is lengthy although there is not a lot of text to each page. Children should pick up on the "Are you my mother?" line fairly easily and it is easy to make them part of the story by asking their opinion on whether or not the dog or the hen, etc. is the bird's mother. There are only surrounding backgrounds in illustrations that need them, like to place the boat in the river their needed to be rocks around it.  The illustrations are simple and they couple with the story line beautifully 

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