Great story about why we need to identify our feelings before we react. When we tell a lie about someone because we're mad at them, it only creates more hurt. If we hear gossip, we shouldn't spread it because we will make it worse.

Great introduction for children about why it isn't helpful to lie and gossip.

It also contains helpful notes for parents and teachers on how to use the story to introduce the topic of gossiping and how we can start to talk about it with the children and help them to understand why it is wrong and what to do instead.

I would use this with children aged 4-9 years.

Cute book for kids about the effects of gossip, how to give a good apology and how to converse about hurt feelings, and more. Would certainly read for a storytime.

While I found the illustrations charming and delightful, and I could appreciate the message this book was getting across, I found there to be too many birds involved. Blue, Red, Pink, Orange, Green, etc., it was hard to keep track of what bird had what feeling.
Again, it was a great message and was enjoyable, but the age group may be for older children than intended.

This is another entry in the series of children's books that is published in conjunction with the American Psychological Association. Each title gently teaches young children how to manage their world.

In this picture book, Blue is upset when Red and Yellow fly off without him. In his upset, Blue starts a rumor that is spread by birds of many colors. (A side benefit of the book is that children can show off their ability to identify the colors.) Eventually all is resolved. Blue apologizes for his lie while Red and Yellow acknowledge that they should have invited Red to come along. The birds of every color are together in harmony.

At the conclusion of the story, there is a section for caregivers on how to help children to deal with similar situations. This adds extra value to the book.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this book that belongs on nursery and day care bookshelves.

Three Little Birds is an excellent book for teaching how to manage hurt feelings, gossip, anger, and body control. The Little Birds were great characters for the theme and the illustrations were light and lovely. I feel like children young and old will connect to the story and be able to have great follow up conversations. The back pages that have ideas for how to use the book were very helpful as well.

While a little bit heavy-handed and obvious, I actually really like this book. I'm a big fan of any book with resources for parents and caregivers, but I also have not seen many picture books that specifically tackle lying and gossiping. Given that this is such a damaging (and yet common) social behavior for both children and adults, I do think this is an important subject to write about.

I received a digital ARC copy from Netgalley to review. The story focuses on spreading lies and rumors among friends. At the end of the story is a section for teachers and caregivers that discusses how to use the book with children. The plot of the story along with the discussion at the end makes this a great addition to any elementary classroom.

I must say this is the first time I read a child book about gossip and rumors and it is really great to be exploring this part of conflicts. The story is well written and I really enjoyed the graphical part of it, the illustrations are simple, yet efficient and really great to look at.

I haven't encountered too many children's books about gossip and fibbing. as of late, so this seems like a nice addition to lesson books. I think it's good for pre-k to 2nd grade. It addresses the issue in a fashion kids can likely relate to and the illustrations were sweet, with all the brightly colored birds! There is an afterword to parents and educators for introducing the book to children and holding discussions, which I thought was very useful. Gossip and fibs should be handles when young. I don't think children mean to do either, they just don;t know any better. It's a lesson they need to be taught before without punishment BEFORE they spread lies and gossip. It's a good little book.

This story was confusing to read on my Kindle. Parts seemed to be overlapping or out of order. I liked the theme of the story, but nothing about it seemed compelling or unique to me as a reader. The extensive notes at the end were informative.

This is a wonderful learning and sharing tool for younger children, I will not be getting for my high school library but will be sending the elementary librarian a suggestion on this one!

We just started a new anti bullying program, and I think this book would be an excellent addition to the curriculum. It’s well written and a poignant story.

Three Little Birds is a cute story about what can go wrong when someone's feelings get hurt and when fibs take on a life of their own. Blue is feeling left out after Red and Yellow leave to go find worms together, so he tells a little fib to Green and Violet, who then tells Orange and Pink, Green's new lie. Stories like this play out in classrooms and schoolyards across the world, and the final message is clear. I enjoyed Reed's illustrations and Mullady's story, but part of me does not really like the secondary message the story delivers: that everyone has to be included or invited to everything. Yes, it hurts one's feelings to be left out, but is a forced invitation any better? It's for the hidden implication that I can't give the book five stars.

I received this digital ARC from Netgalley to review. It’s a short picture book, using birds as characters to show the harm in spreading lies and gossiping and how it can hurt others.

Because it was a digital copy, it seems some pieces may have been left out and made the story line a little scattered. The concept was good, especially for early readers for social emotional learning, but it also seemed a bit contrived at times.

The note to parents and educators at the end of the book seems like it could be most helpful in teaching young children how to appropriately handle conflicts such as these.

Three and a half stars.

Take three differently-coloured birds, and get Blue to feel left out. When he says something catty and untrue it soon escalates to involve the full rainbow of colours, as more and more birds get interested in what's going on. Can the hard-done-by one see past revenge and respond in a more forgiving, less catty way? You'll have to find out, in this simple, heavily moralistic picture book. Definitely designed to inspire life lessons and discussion time, as the densely-written afterword declares, this is fine, but as a result of being so purposeful isn't the greatest outright entertainment ever.