This book could be used for earlier readers, it is a picture book with little words. It is about the adventures of the little bird and it follows along the birds day as it explores and enjoys the world around it. In a class this could be used as a light hearted read, the story is relaxing so it could be used as a way to settle down the class. ( )

This book goes over what a little bird does from morning to night, you could use this in the classroom not only for its reading comprehension but also you could implement a science lesson in it to explain birds' life cycles or to go over different types of birds in their habitat, the book has a lot of descriptive words in the poetry to expand their vocabulary and get a feel of another kind of writing, I believe that this would be good for ages 2nd-3rd grade. ( )

The plot of Little Bird's day is no surprise-we follow Little Bird from morning to night and see the landscape and other animals. The setting is Australia and the book projects the Aboriginal heritage in its colors and its treatment of all nature as living and vital. I love the white outlining in all the illustrations. I couldn't place why I felt the illustrations made me think of natives and then I read the description of them at the end--"the color palette is based on natural pigments...and the animals are embellished with cross-hatching, a traditional raark design". My favorite illustration was Little Bird flying among the stars. In the text, the author capitalizes everything natural--Sun, Wind, Cloud, Rain, etc. This personifies these things that other cultures do not see as alive. The verb choice fit the native atmoshpere--journey, gliding, soar, nestle. It's a beautiful and well-written picture book. ( )