Overview

Walker Books – A Busy Day for Birds (Picture Board Book by Lucy Cousins)

Flap your wings, fly up high, open your beak and sing in this fun action rhyme story about fantastical birds by multi-award-winning author Lucy Cousins. “Can you imagine … just for one day … you’re a busy bird? Yes, a bird! Hooray!” Can you stand on one leg like a flamingo or waddle like a penguin? How about say “cock-a-doodle-doo!”, “tuwit-tuwoo” and even “tra-la-la”? What a busy day you will have! A bouncy read-aloud book to be enjoyed; beautifully illustrated with bold, bright colours and packed with all sorts of wild and wonderful birds!

Review:

“Beautifully illustrated with bold, bright colours and packed with all sorts of bold, bright colours and packed with all sorts of wild and wonderful birds […] the perfect read-aloud book to be enjoyed by young and old […]”- Surrey Advertiser

“Best-selling Lucy Cousins’s boldly drawn birds inspire the imagination as she illustrates the wonderful things that different kinds of birds can do. Lively, colourful birds fill each page beautifully as she illustrates them flying, hopping, pecking, swooping, singing and running in a charming book that leads perfectly to bedtime.” – Book of the Month

“Full of funny instructions (“Say ‘Hello, darling!’ Then swoop like a starling”), it’s a riotous, interactive, zingingly colourful book – perfect to share with the very young.” – The Guardian

“This fantastically bold book will have little ones jumping, flapping, swooping and singing along as they learn all about these beautiful feathered friends.” – Little London

Board Book: 34 pages

ISBN: 9781406378047

Dimensions: 18 x 2 x 20.5 cm

Written & illustrated by: Lucy Cousins

About the Author: 

Lucy Cousins is the multi-award-winning creator of Maisy. A global phenomenon, Maisy books have sold over 21 million copies worldwide and are available in 29 different languages. Other titles include Smarties Book Prize-winner Jazzy in the Jungle, Hooray for Fish! – which now appears in animation in Japan – and the new bestseller New York Times Top 10 Children’s Book Yummy. Lucy lives in Hampshire.