I really did not enjoy this book early on. When the author describes what a peck is between the birds it just seemed really unnecessary. The rest of the book followed a similar pattern. This book is not engaging.

This little book has magical illustrations and can teach kids a lot, especially sprout discussions on birthing and family. I took out a star because of the wording in the story, mama bird "growing fat" and the egg mysteriously appearing. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to tell the story of "wanted baby", as it looks like a surprise, a good surprise for the bird parents but still strange.
What I loved most about this little books was the drawing, it is done so candidly and it is so vividly portraying life of the little bird family. I am thinking of getting the paper copy for my son as this littlr book seems good for explaining where babies come from. Naturally I would focus more on the "wanted" babies.
Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for this free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Cute little story for the itty bitty crowd! Young ones will enjoy hearing this book read to them and the illustrations were really cute!

Delicious, enchanting, wonderfully illustrated, Mama Bird Papa Bird by Wanda Obermeier published by Adnaw Publishing is the story completely illustrated of the arrival of a little new baby bird in the nest of this colored couple of robin birds. This children's book is for sure a gem in the panorama of children's books.

At first the belly of mama bird grows and then a little egg appears on the horizon, ops, well yes, in the nest.

Considering that the egg is frail mama bird will keep it warm while papa bird, her husband will go here and there for discovering new food for feeding himself and of course his lady bird.

Later the discovery: with great surprise a new little baby robin bird is borning.

The new bird will learn slowly slowly thanks to its wise parents to grow up, to fly, to become independent and once he will leave his old nest.

This children's book is surely cute, sweet. I loved to read it, I fell in love for all the illustrations, very colored and I think that each child should read it as well because it is very nice and instructive.

The book is for children from 0 to 8 years and received also the Mom's Choice Gold Award.

I received this ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.
As a person who loves birds, I am always excited to see a book about them. This book however left me feeling frustrated. A Mama bird and a Papa bird build a nest together. Papa bird provides for Mama bird while she sits on the nest.....and then she "grows fat". "then one day it happened Papa bird and Mama bird were very surprised! In their nest was a very small round egg". This book is for a young child and at this age they are sponges. What they hear and "learn" could very well stick with them for their lives. Teaching a child that the mother "grows fat" for no reason and that an egg magically appears is not what they should learn. Eggs don't magically appear, they are laid. The ending also says "Surprised by a mysterious gift". I do understand the "mysteries" of birth, but eggs and babies don't magically appear, and you can tell the story differently without sharing how reproduction works.

I chose to review this with my youngest daughter who is 6 and has autism. Last spring a bird made her nest in our gazebo so my daughter was able to see the nest, the momma bird and the eggs. This book gave her a chance to meld reality and literature together. She loved the drawings and the story; it made her very excited for Spring to come around again in hopes we see another nest this year.

As her mother I thought it was very well written, the drawings were beautiful and went perfectly with the story. Having it end on a question gave me a chance to talk to her about what she thinks she'll do when she's older and it's time for her to leave "our nest".

I would definitely recommend this to other caregivers and educators because it's not just a sweet story but it opens up an opportunity for dialogue with children and their future plans.

I understand that this is a preview sample, but that blue ribbon in the middle of the pages covers not only the illustrations, but also the words. Current thoughts. I like the illustrations and that is about the best thing in this book. The story is typical and done better by other authors. Plus, the bible quote at the end seems really out of place.

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I think birds would know what an egg was, and what it means when it starts to hatch. Also, I wasn’t a fan of the Bible verse at the end.

For the Pre-K set. A sweet story about a bird family (mama, papa, and baby) that tries so hard but misses the mark a couple of times. A mother bird has no idea what the egg in her nest is? Really? Given that this book is supposed to help children understand God's amazing creation--it might have been better to portray mama bird as knowing innately (because the Creator made her that way) what the egg in her nest was. Marketed as a book to help children understand "the deeper meaning of family." Elementary meaning maybe but deeper? However, the illustrations are tender and small children will enjoy the simple plot.

this is a good book and illustrations are also good.