This book was very informative and fun. As the characters go on a bird count, we get details about different birds. We learn some of the sounds they make, migration patterns and what they eat. While it is informative, it is also fun to find how many of each bird there are on the pages.

I have a household and classroom full of bird lovers. Bird Count will certainly delight them! Bird Count covers different types of birds discovered on Christmas Bird Count day. Nonfiction ideas in a fiction picture book and I loved it. My favorite part of the book was the journal notes on the side of each page. I am hopeful that this encourages a new batch of citizen scientists doing clever and helpful research through a bird count of their own. Love!

This is an interesting picture book about a subject I've never seen covered in a children's book before: bird counts. In Bird Count, the young protagonist, Ava, participates in the Christmas Bird Count with her mother and their friend, Big Al. Proper procedure is followed (which is interesting) and there's a growing tally that runs along the right-hand side of the pages as the trio sees or hears various birds in the world around them.

I can't really find much to complain about here. The birds are easy to pick out and match the running tally. At the end of the book, there are descriptions of each of the birds mentioned, and though I do wish there had been pictures to go with each description, I guess that's something readers could look up later. (Speaking of looking up, though, I noticed a typo in the URL for The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Hopefully that will be fixed before the final version comes out.)

This would be a great book for kids who like birds, or for readers who like books where they have to pick stuff out in the illustrations. There's lots of information here about birds, and the story might even inspire some readers to join a bird count themselves.

Bird Count is an amazingly informative and engaging children's picture book with the most gorgeous illustrations. Our family also lives in New England and we are big into back yard "birding". Bird Count is the story of the annual "bird count" where neighbors get together as citizen scientists to gather information about the bird species in their town.

Our two children loved reading this book with me and especially enjoyed it because all the books that Ava identified on her bird count, we are able to see around here too. They loved seeing Ava, her mom and Big Al visit the fields, woods, wetlands, neighbors, and center of town to see the different types of bird activity in those areas.

This book is the perfect balance of bird information along with a sweet and engaging story that looks at the world around us. We have already pre-ordered this book and can't wait to add a hard copy of this book to our home library collection this fall.

Thank you to NetGalley and Peachtree Publishing Group for a copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to netgalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I absolutely adored this story. There aren't many books about birdwatching around, the last I can recall is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, and that was written a long time ago. I really like how the girl can birdwatch all throughout her community, she doesn't have to go far out into the wilderness to see the nature all around her. The illustrations are cheerful and fun, and accurate enough but not too detailed so we can see the different birds.

This is a wonderful nature book for children. In it, they will learn about the Citizen Scientists' Christmas Bird Count. The reader watches as a young girl, her mom and Big Al go out on a cold winter's day to record all of the birds that they see; the reader learns about how the count takes place as, for example, a bird must be seen by at least two people for it to be counted. Along the way, there are facts about different birds and their calls; the birds can easily be found in the appealing illustrations.

There is bonus content at the end of the book. Information is there about both the birds and the author. There is also a section on additional resources.

This is a very good book for children who would like to know more about birds. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this e book in exchange for an honest review.