Seven Hungry Babies

by Candace Fleming, Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)

Overview

Seven bitty baby birds are hungry, hungry, hungry—and they’re letting Mama know. “Feed us! Feed us!” the little ones chant, and Mama calms them as only a mother can—before she frantically flies away to gather more delectable worms. Readers can count with Mama Bird as she zooms back and forth across the pages, going from seven hungry babies to none…until one by one the babies wake up again…hungry!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442436855
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
File size:	72 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Candace Fleming is the acclaimed author of numerous books for children, including the Bulldozer books; Ben Franklin’s Almanac, an ALA Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, as well as Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, and Sibert Medal honorees The Honeybee, and The Giant Squid. She lives in a suburb of Chicago.

Eugene Yelchin is a Russian-born illustrator who started with the Leningrad Institute of Theater Arts. He began his career designing sets and costumes for the stage, he also co-founded a children’s theatre in Siberia.  After he moved to Boston, he became an illustrator.  Mr. Yelchin has  received the Tomie DePaola Illustration Award .  He lives in Topanga, California.  His website is www.eugeneyelchin.com.

Editorial Reviews

Mama Bird faces quite a challenge feeding her voracious new brood. Early one morning, the speckled eggs crack, and a moment later seven adorable yellow baby birds are crying for nourishment. Mama flies frenziedly all over town to find, in turn, a cricket, a cherry, a crust of bread, a pea pod, a minnow, a bird seed and, finally, an earthworm. With full stomachs, the seven babies drift off to sleep, and exhausted Mama sees her opportunity for a nap as well. But just as her eyelids are falling comes a chorus of "Peeps!" Fleming's minimal text is perfectly pitched to a very young audience; words dance all around the pages, and many (like the refrain of "flappa-flap, swoop-swoop") are tailor-made for joyous repeating aloud. Yelchin's gouache illustrations are similarly playful, depicting as they do a nest full of contented and/or screaming chicks, wee beaks agape, in nice count-up/count-down juxtaposition and an increasingly frazzled Mama. This one peeps loud: "Read it again!" (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews