I love, love, love this book! The artwork is absolutely stunning. This is an engaging story about the life and work of Florence Merriam Baily that I am sure adults and kids will love. I can't wait to share this with my 3 and 5 year olds!

Well-meaning book showing the young audience the work of Florence Merriam Bailey, a pioneering American ornithologist who campaigned against the use of bird feathers – and stuffed bird carcasses – as fashion accessories, and against shooting of birds for 'scientific' 'study' or worse. Instead she, and the text here, wanted to focus on the song the birds made, and what it might teach us all about respecting nature. Like I say, well-meaning, and it hits most of the beats it wants to well. I just can't get over my dislike of the choice of artistic style in the illustrations.

"Counting Birds" by Heidi Stemple lacks the female subject, but does quite a similar thing. Review:- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2564131917