nests

Text and illustrations look at different animal nests.

With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.

Thumper and Daisy protect an egg while the other bunnies search for a nest.

Readers are asked to guess whose nest is pictured before opening flaps that reveal eight different animals and information about their nesting habits.

Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a new nest only to discover their old one is better.

Two small yellow and brown birds search for a place to build a nest.

Annie and her bunny watch and wait as a nest is built above the porch swing, and eventually they get to see the mother bird feeding her babies. When a mother robin builds a nest on Annie's porch Annie can't wait to show her favorite cousin, Henry. Every day they watch the nest grow bigger and bigger. One day five small eggs appear. But it is not easy to wait! When will the baby birds hatch?.

While Basil the school janitor is napping, birds build a nest atop his head and when the eggs hatch, he becomes a proud "dad" to the chicks.

Annie and her bunny watch and wait as a nest is built above the porch swing, and eventually they get to see the mother bird feeding her babies.