Baby's First Book of Birds & Colors

Toddler-PreS--Foliage and birds of corresponding hues are highlighted in this bursting-with-color avian primer. Rendered in glorious detail, a scarlet tanager and northern cardinal sit in a summer red maple while a branch of forsythia hosts a goldfinch and yellow warbler.

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Tildes (Baby Animals Take a Bath pairs nine colors (if one counts black and white) with birds that show off each hue. The birds are labeled by name and sex, and they perch in and around foliage that helps make the pages explode with color: an eastern bluebird sits on a birdhouse entwined with morning glories, a thrush and wren scavenge for food on a forest floor dotted with brown leaves and mushrooms, and a downy woodpecker does its thing on a birchas flaky white bark. As she often does, Tildes concludes the book with a spread featuring human children, though it feels overly posed and visually jarring beside the preceding pages. Up to age 3. (May) Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.