Have You Seen Birds?

by Joanne Oppenheim, Barbara Reid (Illustrator)

A brief description of the behavior and characteristics of common birds for the young reader.

Genres: Picture Books, Birds, Childrens, Animals, Nature, Spanish Literature, Science

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you seen birds?

Long-legged tall birds, tiny bug-sized small birds? Spring birds? Early summer garden birds? Autumn birds? Winter birds? Woodland birds? Night birds? Town birds? Farm birds? On-beyond-the-barn birds? Marsh birds? Sea birds? Fishing birds? Sky birds? Have you seen birds?

Thirty-five plasticine-sculpted depictions of birds in a variety of settings grace the pages of this wonderful young reader book. The target audience, six to eight-year-olds [early primary grades] will find much to enjoy in each of the pictures. A whopping fifty-eight different species of birds accompany the simple rhyming text that tells about birds, how they look, what they do, how they sound. A special book for parents and children to enjoy together.

Highly recommended.

[Lily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for my 4 year old. He loves the colors in the book. I must have an older version because the cover of ours is purple with a different illustration in the book. Frankly, I like our cover better than the one shown in Goodreads. 😃

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars
Have you seen birds? That's what the book asks, then lists descriptions about birds; what they do, what they look like, where they live. The sculpted artwork is interesting but the story is lacking.

[Steven R. McEvoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another award-winning book by illustrator Barbara Reid and author Joanne Oppenheim. It has won the Canadian Council Children's Literature Prize, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian picture Book Award. Both Reid and Oppenheim have won numerous other awards also.

This book looks at birds of a feather from all over the place - birds of different sizes, birds in different places, birds doing different things. Woodland birds, night birds, farm birds and city birds - it covers them all, with 35 amazing illustrations depicting 58 different species of birds wonderfully rendered in Reid's highly detailed plasticine art. This is now one my favorite Barbara Reid books.

[Cynthia Mackey · Rating 4 out of 5]

With an adorable variety of true-to-life birds made from plasticene, thie picture book is excellent for reading at home. It provides an opportunity to talk about birds and helps the young reader see the true variety of birds in nature.

[Peyton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Promotes counting and bird spotting in real life. Could be used to start a lesson in bird watching and birds in general.

[ambyr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, I just really love the modeling clay illustrations, okay?

[Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gift from Harper's grandmother

[Char · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great follow up to “Have you seen trees?” Seems to run a little longer though.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the art in here. Sometimes it looks like clay, other times like felted wool.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charming. Such a fun use of words, paired with whimsical illustrations that manage to convey a good picture of each bird in just a few strokes.

[Melanie Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

the clay illustrations are amazing!!!

[Chericem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grammar: Descriptive adjectives, present perfect, present tense

Vocabulary: Adjectives, verbs

Absolutely enchanting illustrations made from layers of clay that play with perspective in many different ways. Illustrations support learners' comprehension of the few lines of text that appear on each page.

[Ali Hembree · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would be great to use in science class for 4th or 5th grade.

The content of this book includes all different kinds of birds and the different type of sounds they make while flying around. A conversation could be started of why birds make different sounds.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beautiful relief-dough illustrations in this picture book made me think about "seeing" and "really seeing." Do we really see birds? When do we really see them, and appreciate their stunning beauty and uniqueness?

[Emily Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peritext: NA
Author: Joanne F. Oppenheim
Themes: Birds and where they live.
Text: Standard with few exceptions
Thoughts: A good story to help with brainstorming about birds, beautiful art that could be used for student creations.

[Lynn Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The fabulous illustrations in this book are designed from Plasticine. Each exciting page shows beautiful birds with lovely descriptive words about how they look or what they do. On the back page is a list by page of all the birds in the book - over 50 different ones.

[Anne]

Beautiful writing and illustrations. My daughter learned to read many new words with this book.

[Katherine Sandoval · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful book to read aloud and the illustrations are marvelous! A must read for bird lovers everywhere!

[Tuyet Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have you seen birds? Yes, I have, but not all types of birds. This book will introduce all kinds of birds. It is very interesting.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the plasticine artworkd