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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Firebird	Demi	With the aid of his magical horse, Ptitsa, a young archer fulfills the increasingly difficult requests of Tsar Ivan and wins the hand of Princess Vassilissa.	OL103634W
Fly away Peter	Frank Dickens	A giraffe whose neck is too short and a bird who can't fly play hide-and-seek with startling results.	OL11784549W
Ragtag	Karl Wolf-Morgenländer	A young swallow leads a band of birds against an empire of raptors that has invaded Boston.	OL12017300W
The missing sunflowers	Maggie Stern	Simon gets three sunflower plants from his bird-loving neighbor Mrs. Potter, only to have them disappear one by one.	OL14850279W
Arabel's raven	Joan Aiken	The injured raven Arabel's father brings home can say only "Kaark" and "Nevermore" but he still manages to make great changes in the family's life.	OL14851450W
Tomie's Mother Goose Flies Again	Tomie dePaola	Contains a collection of nursery rhymes, including "Jack Sprat," "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," and "Georgie Porgie."	OL15014873W
Richard Scarry's the early bird	Richard Scarry	After several cases of mistaken identity Early Bird finally finds a worm to play with.	OL15032241W
Big Bird visits the dodos	Deborah Hautzig	Big Bird goes to stay with a family of dodos in Illinois, but finds he is much happier with the mixed population on Sesame Street.	OL15090591W
Word Bird builds a city	Jane Belk Moncure	Word Bird uses his blocks to build a city complete with an airport, zoo, roads, and neighborhoods.	OL15124925W
Word Bird's hats	Jane Belk Moncure	Uses simple vocabulary to describe the hats from different occupations that Word Bird tries on during the week.	OL15124935W
Janey Crane	Barbara DeRubertis	Janey plans to surprise her friends by baking their favorite cakes to celebrate her birthday, but she is the one who gets surprised.	OL15276203W
Annie and Snowball and the cozy nest	Cynthia Rylant	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.	OL15419977W
The king of show-and-tell	Abby Klein	Envious because Robbie always brings the most exciting things to school for show-and-tell, Freddy rescues a baby bird that has fallen from its nest and has to find a way to get it to school without h…	OL15831583W
In search of a sandhill crane	Keith Robertson	Link Keller was sure his summer in the Michigan wilderness was going to be the loneliest, dullest time of his life. he couldn’t wait to get back to New Jersey, back to baseball and TV and the comfort…	OL15855660W
Emu	Claire Saxby	An emu father in Australia's eucalyptus forest watches over his growing hatchlings as they outmaneuver regional dangers, in this illustrated introduction to the emu life cycle.	OL17880587W
The great race of the birds and animals	Paul Goble	A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of C…	OL1844234W
Cloud Cuckoo Land	Bernard Lodge	The reader takes a rhyming trip to places not on many maps including Hairland, the Hanging Hills, Ice Cone Island, and Yewtopia.	OL19180600W
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual	Kate Samworth	In a future when deforestation and other environmental factors have caused many bird species to go extinct, businessman Alfred Wallis offers a catalog of parts for creating replacements, from hand-ca…	OL19633044W
Loveykins	Quentin Blake	A woman rescues a baby bird blown from his nest in a storm and proceeds to care for him with gourmet food, cozy blankets, and walks in a stroller, but eventually her "loveykins" is ready to try his w…	OL1971896W
Gooney Bird and all her charms	Lois Lowry,Middy Thomas	Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they …	OL19974656W